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Hail  brother!  fling  thy  banner     Brave  Britain,  blest  America! 

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The  above  shield,  or  escutcheon,  arranged  by  Mrs.  Augusta 
E.  Stetson,  has  been  upon  the  fagade  of  her  house  since  the 
summer  of  1917. 

Definition  of  Shield:  "The  escutcheon  upon  which  em- 
blems of  heraldry  [spiritual]  are  depicted"  (Standard 
Dictionary). 

Reproduced  by  permission  of  Mrs.  A.  E.  Stetson. 


America  Triumphant 

Under  God  and  His  Christ 


By 

Kitty  Cheatham 


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G«  P.  Putnam^s  Sons 

New  York  and  London 

Zbe  "Rnlcherbocfter  press 

J920 


Copyright.  1920 

BY 

KITTY  CHEATHAM 


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BY 


JforetooriJ 


The  ages  will  outgrow  symbols  and  will  "look  upon"  man  in 
God's  image,  the  Christ  (Truth)  man,  and  will  be  "lifted  up" 
to  see  the  source  and  supply  of  their  being,  our  Father-Mother 
God, — Mind,  Spirit. 

<2      And  I,  if  I  be  lifted  up  from  the  earth,  will  draw 

i^  all  men  unto  me. — Christ  Jesus.     (John  12:  32.) 

>» 

5       "Thou  shalt  have  no  other  gods  before  me." 

»   (Exodus,  20,  3.) 

.  .  .  The  divine  Principle  of  the  First  Com- 
mandment bases  the  Science  of  being,  by  which  man 
*■  demonstrates  health,  holiness,  and  life  eternal.  One 
^  infinite  God,  good,  unifies  men  and  nations;  con- 
§  stitutes  the  brotherhood  of  man;  ends  wars;  fulfills 
the  Scripture,  "Love  thy  neighbor  as  thyself"; 
-J  annihilates  pagan  and  Christian  idolatry, — what- 
^  ever  is  wrong  in  social,  civil,  criminal,  political,  and 
»  religious  codes ;  equalizes  the  sexes ;  annuls  the  curse 
«  on  man,  and  leaves  nothing  that  can  sin,  suffer,  be 
"■^  punished  or  destroyed.  {Science  and  Health  with 
i|  Key  to  the  Scriptures,  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
^    p.  340.) 


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America  l^riumpftant 
WirOitt  <@ob  mii  ^is  Cfjrtsft 

A  remarkable  and  divinely  inspired  edi- 
torial, entitled  "Our  Fathers'  Flag,"  ap- 
peared in  the  Sun  and  New  York  Herald 
of  June  14,  1920.  It  opens  by  calling  atten- 
tion to  the  fact,  that  July  4,  1920,  is  the 
144th  anniversary  of  our  independence, 
and  states,  that 

Amid  the  crashing  of  thrones  and  the  transfor- 
mation of  states,  it  [the  flag]  remains  the  same.  It 
is  now  a  beacon  of  hope  for  the  world,  and  a  life- 
giving  power  to  nations,  old  and  new.  ...  If  we 
Americans,  like  our  fathers,  reject  utterly  the  dic- 
tum of  Europeans,  steeped  in  the  traditions  of 
feudalism  and  kingcraft,  that  "all  flag  devising 
should  be  in  accordance  with  heraldic  laws,"  it  is 
because    we    know    our    own    history.  .  .  .     Our 

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fathers  knew  what  they  were  doing  and  they  did 
it  wisely,  even  as  the  seal  of  time,  set  upon  their 
action,  shows.  No  form  of  words,  even  of  sacred 
ritual,  was  more  carefully  watched  and  guarded  for 
the  final  record:  "Resolved,  that  the  flag  of  the 
thirteen  United  States  be  thirteen  stripes,  alternate 
red  and  white;  that  the  Union  be  thirteen  stars, 
white  in  a  blue  field,  representing  a  new  constella- 
tion."  .  .  .  Contrast  Old  World  flag  lore  and 
language  and  that  of  Independence  Hall.  The 
difference  discovered  is  like  that  between  a  roving 
planet  and  a  fixed  star.  The  one  reflects  borrowed 
light.    The  other  gives,  but  borrows  none. 


The  editorial  closes,  by  voicing  the  world- 
wide yearning,  that  a  leader  should  be  raised 
up,  who  will  complete  the  great  work  which 
was  begun  by  the  pioneers  of  America, 
continued  at  the  birth  of  our  Republic  and 
which  rose  to  its  height  of  achievement  by 
the  establishment  of  the  Union  in  1865. 
America,  in  her  conception,  birth  and  un- 
foldment,  is  the  highest  national  symbolic 
ideal  the  world  has  ever  known.  America 
was  founded  on   spiritual  aspirations,   de- 


^mtvita  tKriumpfiant 

veloped  by  spiritual  conviction,  and  will 
continue  to  exist  and  advance  under  the 
leadership  of  spiritual  ideals.  America's 
imperishable  covenants,  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  the  Constitution  and  the 
Monroe  Doctrine,  came  forth  under  divine 
impulsion,  and  are  under  the  protection  of 
divine  Providence,  to  whom  recognition  is 
given  throughout  their  pages.  Her  immor- 
tal sovereignty  of  spiritual  dominion  was 
founded  upon  the  rock,  Christ,  Truth.  "It 
shall  endure." 

The  word  "nation"  comes  from  a  root, 
meaning,  "I  am  bom."  As  we  rise  spirit- 
ually, symbols  disappear,  and  the  substance, 
or  spiritual  reality  of  all  things  appears. 
Abraham  Lincoln  put  the  last  stone  in  the 
great  constructive  building,  which  we  may 
call,  America  militant.  His  words,  "This 
nation,  under  God,  shall  have  a  new  birth  of 
freedom, — government  of  the  people,  by  the 
people,  for  the  people  shall  not  perish  from 

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the  earth,"  came  forth  in  spiritual  law  and 
order,  as  a  second  and  final  trumpet  call, — 
the  first  of  which  was  sounded  by  Washing- 
ton, when  he  said  to  the  makers  of  the 
Constitution,  "Let  us  raise  a  standard,  to 
which  the  wise  and  honest  can  repair;  the 
event  is  in  the  hands  of  God." 

This  immortal  demand,  uttered  by  the 
father  of  our  nation  against  the  insistence 
upon  certain  fallacies  being  written  in  the 
Constitution,  followed  upon  Franklin's 
earnest  appeal,  that  the  framers  of  the 
Constitution  "invoke  the  divine  guidance 
of  the  Father  of  Light  upon  our  proceed- 
ings," and  he  (Franklin)  added. 

The  longer  I  live,  and  the  more  I  know,  the  more 
I  believe  that  God  governs  in  the  affairs  of  men,  and, 
if  the  sparrow  cannot  fall  without  His  notice,  is  it 
probable  that  an  empire  can  rise  without  His 
assistance  ?  * '  Except  the  Lord  build  the  house,  they 
labor  in  vain  that  build  it. "  I  firmly  believe  this,  and 
I  also  believe,  that  without  His  concurring  aid,  we 
shall  succeed  in  our  political  building  no  better  than 
the  builders  of  Babel. 

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From  that  moment  the  makers  of  America 
knelt  in  childhke  humiHty,  and  asked  God's 
direction  in  all  their  activities.  The  result 
was,  is,  and  will  continue  to  be  the  Constitu- 
tion of  the  United  States,  under  the  law  of 
God. 

Washington's  burning  desire  for  an  in- 
dividual, national  and  ever-uplifted  stand- 
ard of  purity  of  purpose,  which  our  Stars 
and  Stripes  t3^pify,  namely  truth,  justice, 
righteousness,  liberty,  upon  which  America 
was  founded — this  desire,  or  prayer,  of 
Washington,  was  answered  by  Lincoln's 
prophetic  utterance  that,  ^^ under  God,''  the 
standard  of  truth,  justice,  righteousness, 
liberty,  would  continue  to  rise  till  Truth 
should  declare  Her  triimiph  over  all  error. 
Under  God,  America  shall  continue  to  pro- 
gress spiritually  until  she  attains  maturity 
and  the  law  of  God  is  revealed,  acknowledged 
and  established,  namely,  "one  God,  one  law, 
divine  democracy,  imiversal  brotherhood." 

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"Under  God,"  America  continues  to  de- 
mand obedience  to  the  law  of  truth,  justice, 
righteousness,  and  Hberty. 

"Truth's  mighty  arguments  are  rolling  down 
From  inland  mountain  to  seaboard  town." 

The  demands  of  God  are  being  recog- 
nized and  immutable  Truth  is  compelHng 
htimanity  to  accept  and  obey  her  mandates. 
Abraham  Lincoln  spoke  the  last  word  to  be 
spoken  through  man,  in  that  hour.  He 
struck  the  last  note  in  the  Liberty  Bell  of 
America  militant.  A  new  tone,  in  divine 
order,  was  sounding  faintly,  and  the  listen- 
ing ear  caught  the  harmony,  the  promise  of 
a  triumphant  America. 

Names  are  of  deep  significance.  Abra- 
ham, to  whom  God  gave  His  covenant, 
typifies  America's  history  and  parental 
mission  among  the  nations. 

.  .  .  the  Lord  .  .  .  said  unto  Abram,  Get  thee 
out  of  thy  country,  and  from  thy  kindred,  and  from 
thy  father's  house,  unto  a  land   [spiritual  under- 

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standing]  that  I  will  show  thee :  .  .  .  I  will  make 
of  thee  a  great  nation,  and  I  will  bless  thee,  and 
make  thy  name  great. ' 

Abraham's  immediate  obedience  to  the 
divine  command, — his  wilHngness  to  sacri- 
fice himself  for  the  fulfilhnent  of  God's 
purpose,  brought  him  his  God-given  mission 
and  "covenant." 

...  I  will  make  my  covenant  between  me  and 
thee,  and  will  multiply  thee  exceedingly  .  .  ,  thou 
shalt  be  a  father  of  many  nations.  Neither  shall 
thy  name  any  more  be  called  Abram,  but  thy  name 
shall  be  Abraham;  for  a  father  of  many  nations 
have  I  made  thee  ...  I  will  establish  my  covenant 
between  me  and  thee  and  thy  seed  .  .  .  for  an 
everlasting  covenant.  ^ 

When  Abraham's  sublime  test  came,  and 

Isaac  his  first-bom  of  spirit  was  laid  on  the 

altar, 

.  .  .  the  angel  of  the  Lord  called  unto  Abraham 
the  second  time,  and  said  ...  in  multiplying  I 
will  multiply  thy  seed  as  the  stars  of  the  heaven, 
and  as  the  sand  which  is  upon  the  seashore;  and  thy 

'Genesis  12: 1-3.  ^  Ibid.,  17:2-7. 

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seed  shall  possess  the  gate  of  his  enemies;  and  in 
thy  seed  shall  all  the  nations  of  the  earth  be  blessed; 
because  thou  hast  obeyed  my  voice.  ^ 

What  picture  have  we  in  all  biblical  his- 
tory, more  tenderly  and  profoundly  sig- 
nificant, than  this  of  the  little  lad  of  Israel, 
Isaac,  obeying  with  childlike  faith,  the 
words  of  Abraham,  his  father,  as  he  (Isaac) 
brought  to  the  altar  the  wood,  which  was  to 
kindle  the  sacrificial  flames.  Abraham, 
with  the  same  childlike  trust,  had  obeyed 
his  Father — God — and  laid  his  all — sacrificed 
himself — his  false  or  material  senses — in 
the  consuming  fires  of  omnipotent  Truth 
and  Love. 

The  ''covenant"  made  with  Abraham  is 
spoken  of  in  every  great  event  in  the  history 
of  the  house  of  Israel,  and  the  radiant  "bow 
of  promise"  given  to  Noah,  in  token  of  his 
obedience  to  the  divine  demand  to  "build  an 
ark,"  was  its  precedent.    Moses  constantly 

'Genesis  22: 15,  17,  18. 

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held  the  "covenant"  before  the  children  of 

Israel.     His  command  to  Israel  applies  to 

America : 

Now  therefore,  hearken,  0  Israel,  unto  the 
statutes  and  unto  the  judgments,  which  I  teach 
you,  for  to  do  them,  that  ye  may  live,  and  go  in  and 
possess  the  land  which  the  Lord  God  of  your 
fathers  giveth  you.  .  .  .  For  what  nation  is  there 
so  great,  who  hath  God  so  nigh  unto  them,  as  the 
Lord  our  God  is  in  all  things  that  we  call  upon  him 
for?  And  what  nation  is  there  so  great,  that  hath 
statutes  and  judgments  so  righteous  as  all  this  law, 
which  I  set  before  you  this  day  ?  .  .  .  He  declared 
unto  you  his  covenant,  which  he  commanded  you 
to  perform.' 

The    "  separateness "    of    America    is    the 

foundation-stone  of  her  "covenant"  with 

God.    In  Moses'  song  we  read : 

The  Lord's  portion  is  his  people;  Jacob  is  the  lot 
of  his  inheritance  ...  he  led  him  ...  he  in- 
structed him,  he  kept  him  as  the  apple  of  his  eye. 
As  an  eagle  stirreth  up  her  nest,  fluttereth  over  her 
young,  spreadeth  abroad  her  wings,  taketh  them, 
beareth  them  on  her  wings;  so  the  Lord  alone  did 
lead  him,  and  there  was  no  strange  god  with  him,^ 

•  Deuteronomy  4:  i,  7,  8,  13.  '  Ibid.,  2,2:  9-12. 

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David,  in  his  song  of  thanksgiving  before 
the  ark,  sings: 

Be  ye  mindful  always  of  his  covenant;  the  word 
which  he  commanded  to  a  thousand  generations; 
even  of  the  covenant  which  he  made  with  Abraham, 
and  of  his  oath  unto  Isaac ;  and  hath  confirmed  the 
same  to  Jacob  for  a  law,  and  to  Israel  for  an  ever- 
lasting covenant. ' 

Isaiah  emphasizes  the  "covenant"  by  con- 
stant repetition,  as  well  as  Nehemiah, 
Jeremiah,  Daniel,  Ezekiel,  Haggai,  and  other 
of  the  prophets.  Mary  and  Elizabeth  sang 
of  it  in  the  Galilean  hills.  Jesus  used  it  as 
a  refutation  of  mortality  (material  genera- 
tion) .  To  the  resistent  Sadducees,  who  were 
questioning  him  about  the  resurrection, 
Jesus  said: 

Ye  do  err,  not  knowing  the  scriptures,  nor  the 
power  of  God.  ...  As  touching  the  resurrection 
of  the  dead,  have  ye  not  read  that  which  was  spoken 
unto  you  by  God  saying,  I  am  the  God  of  Abraham, 
and  the  God  of  Isaac,  and  the  God  of  Jacob?  God 
is  not  the  God  of  the  dead,  but  of  the  living.^ 

'  I  Chronicles  i6: 15-17.  '  Matthew  22:29,  31,  32. 

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Stephen  began  his  defense  before  the 
Sanhedrin,  by  holding  before  his  accusers 
the  glory  of  the  "covenant."  Paul  uses 
Abraham  as  his  highest  exemplar  of  faith  in 
''keeping  the  covenant.'' 

For  he  looked  for  a  city  which  hath  foundations, 
whose  builder  and  maker  is  God.  ^ 

But  Paul  also  speaks  of  a  "new  covenant," 
in  relating  Abraham's  experience  with  Mel- 
chizedek,  "to  whom  also  Abraham  gave  a 
tenth  part  of  all. ' '    This ' '  king  of  peace ' '  was 

Without  [material]  father,  without  [material]  mother, 
without  descent,  having  neither  beginning  of  days 
nor  end  of  life;  but  made  like  unto  the  Son  of  God.' 

God  is  the  only  Creator  of  man,  whom  He 
<'God)  made  spiritual,  like  Himself,  and 
whom  He  governs  through  His  law  of  eter- 
nal life  and  love. 

God  is  .  .  .  Spirit;  and  they  that  worship  him 
must  worship  him  in  spirit  and  in  truth.  ^ 

'  Hebrews  II :  10.  '/ftid.,  7:3.  3john4:24. 

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jamerica  tKriumpfjant 

There  is  no  other  God,  no  other  man,  for 
God  is  all,  and  man  is  made  in  His  image, 
and  governed  by  His  law  of  life  and  love. 

The  following  sentence  also  appears  in 
the  editorial,  previously  referred  to,  in  the 
Sun  and  New  York  Herald: 

The  Almighty  had  pointed  the  everlasting  stars 
in  the  skies  to  Abraham,  as  the  symbols  of  prophecy 
and  increase;  and  our  fathers  read  their  Bibles. 

On  April  9,  1865,  Abraham  Lincoln  called 
his  Cabinet  together  to  annoimce  the  end 
of  strife  at  that  hour,  and  the  safety  of  the 
Union.  Those  assembled  knelt  humbly  and 
gave  thanks  to  God.  Lincoln  was  hailed  as 
a  liberator.  From  his  great  heart  welled 
the  Christly  qualities  of  tenderness,  com- 
passion, "malice  toward  none,  charity  to- 
ward all."  America  militant  had  reached 
the  limit  of  her  power,  and  the  "covenant," 
which  God  established  with  Abraham, 
awaited  revelation.  This  "covenant"  is 
the  immutable  fact,   that  man  is  mental, 

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spiritual,  deathless,  indestructible,  a  re- 
flector and  emanation  of  Principle,  Life,  and 
Love;  a  child  of  our  Father- Mother  God, 
eternally  co-existent  with  his  Maker.  Lin- 
coln's prophecy,  "This  nation,  under  God, 
shall  have  a  new  birth  of  freedom,"  was 
approaching  fulfillment.  The  new  "coven- 
ant, "  found  in  the  promised  land  of  infinite 
Life  and  Love,  which  America  typifies,  was 
being  imfolded  to  the  hungry,  awakened 
"little  ones  of  the  new  era, "  who  were  being 
gently,  perhaps  imknowingly,  led  to 

Mount  Zion^  and  unto  the  city  of  the  living  God, 
the  heavenly  Jerusalem,  and  to  an  innumerable 
company  of  angels. '' 

The  angelic  choir  was  heard  by  them,  the 
"little  ones  of  the  new  era,"  chanting  the 
anthem  of  immortality,  peace  on  earth, 
good  will  (God's  will)  to  men,  and  above  all, 

'  Definition  of  Zion :   Spiritual  foundation  and  superstruc- 
ture; inspiration;  spiritual  strength. — Science  and  Health  with 
Key  to  the  Scriptures,  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  p.  599. 
^Hebrews  12:22. 

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the  listening  ear  caught  the  assuring  pro- 
phecy and  promise, 

The  government  shall  be  upon  his  [Christ's] 
shoulder:  and  his  name  shall  be  called  Wonderful, 
Counsellor,  The  mighty  God,  The  everlasting 
Father,  The  Prince  of  Peace.  ^ 

At  this  moment  of  spiritual  unfoldment 
and  revelation,  tmder  divine  law  and  order, 
a  woman,  known  to  human  apprehension  as 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  but  spiritually  endowed 
to  interpret  the  law  of  omnipotent  Life  and 
Love,  Spirit,  God,  sounded  the  clarion  call 
of  spiritual  emancipation,  when  in  1866  she 
discovered  and  founded  Christian  Science. 
This  divinely  inspired  woman  came  forth, 
in  meekness  and  spiritual  might,  claiming 
her  royal  prerogative  to  voice  the  word  of 
God  to  humanity,  and,  as  God's  child,  to 
represent  her  Creator,  and  thus  to  rise  to  her 
divine  mission  of  fulfilling  the  law  of  Love, 
which  conquers  fear  and  death.     Like  her 

'  Isaiah  9:6. 

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Master,  Christ  Jesus,  she  will  finally  make 
a  demonstration  of  her  teaching,  ''There  is 
no  death  ....'"  At  that  psychological 
moment,  1866,  under  the  omni-active  law 
of  God  and  His  Christ,  America  triiimphmit 
was  bom,  and  the  foundation-stone  in  the 
"house  [nation]  not  made  with  hands, 
eternal  in  the  heavens,  "^  was  laid. 

The  stone  which  the  builders  rejected  has  [had] 
become  the  head  of  the  corner.  ^ 

To  those  who  had  the  prophetic  vision,  the 
spiritual  nation,  the  spiritual  structure,  or 
Church  triumphant,  began  its  unfoldment. 
Mrs.  Eddy  gives  the  spiritual  definition  of 
Church  as  ' '  the  structure  of  Truth  and  Love ; 
whatever  rests  upon  and  proceeds  from  divine 
Principle."-^  Again  she  says,  "Evidences 
of  progress  and  spiritualization  greet  us  on 
every  hand.  "^    Of  this  third  stage  of  unfold- 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  427.  *  II  Corinthians  5:1. 

3  Mark  12:10.  *  Science  and  Health,  p.  583. 

5  Science  and  Health,  p.  158. 

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ment,  or  fourth  in  the  fullness  of  appearing, 
as  S3niibolically  expressed  by  the  pioneer 
work  of  the  Virginia  colonists  and  the  Pil- 
grims, by  the  birth  of  the  Republic,  by  the 
abolition  of  physical  slavery,  and  by  the 
discovery  of  Christian  Science,  the  Science 
of  being,  Mrs.  Eddy  says: 

I  saw  before  me  the  sick,  wearing  out  years  of 
servitude  to  an  unreal  master,  in  the  belief  that  the 
body  governed  them,  rather  than  Mind. 

The  lame,  the  deaf,  the  dumb,  the  blind,  the  sick, 
the  sensual,  the  sinner,  I  wished  to  save  from  the 
slavery  of  their  own  beliefs  and  from  the  educa- 
tional systems  of  the  Pharaohs,  who  to-day,  as  of 
yore,  hold  the  children  of  Israel  in  bondage.  I  saw 
before  me  the  awful  conflict,  the  Red  Sea  and  the 
wilderness;  but  I  pressed  on  through  faith  in  God, 
trusting  Truth,  the  strong  deliverer,  to  guide  me 
into  the  land  of  Christian  Science,  where  fetters  fall 
and  the  rights  of  man  are  fully  known  and  ac- 
knowledged. ^ 

The  Bible  has  inspired  every  symbol, 
which  represents  America.  As  imder  the 
law    of    God,    humanity    rises    spiritually, 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  226. 
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America  Criumpibant 

Christ,  Truth,  removes  the  symbols,  and 
reveals  the  radiant  reaHty.  Jefferson  and 
Franklin  proposed  as  an  original  design  for 
the  Seal  of  the  United  States,  the  Children 
of  Israel  in  the  wilderness.  Franklin's  notes 
read  thus : 

Moses  standing  on  the  Shore,  and  extending  his 
Hand  over  the  Sea,  thereby  causing  the  same  to 
overwhelm  Pharaoh  who  is  sitting  in  an  open 
Chariot,  a  Crown  on  his  Head  and  Sword  in  his 
Hand.  Rays  from  a  Pillar  of  Fire  in  the  Clouds 
reaching  to  Moses  to  express  that  he  acts  by  Com- 
mand of  the  Deity. 

Motto:  Rebellion  to  Tyrants  is  Obedience  to 
God. 

The  reason  given  for  the  rejection  of  this 
design  was  on  account  of  its  heraldic  com- 
plications.   Mrs.  Eddy  further  says: 

God  has  built  a  higher  platform  of  human  rights, 
and  He  has  built  it  on  diviner  claims.  These  claims 
are  not  made  through  code  or  creed,  but  in  dem- 
onstration of  "on  earth  peace,  good-will  toward 
men."  Human  codes,  scholastic  theology,  material 
medicine,  and  hygiene,  fetter  faith  and  spiritual 

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understanding.  Divine  Science  rends  asunder  these 
fetters,  and  man's  birthright  of  sole  allegiance  to  his 
Maker  asserts  itself.  ^ 

The  history  of  our  country,  like  all  history,  illus- 
trates the  might  of  Mind,  and  shows  human  power 
to  be  proportionate  to  its  embodiment  of  right 
thinking.  A  few  immortal  sentences,  breathing  the 
omnipotence  of  divine  justice,  have  been  potent  to 
break  despotic  fetters  and  abolish  the  whipping- 
post and  slave  market ;  but  oppression  neither  went 
down  in  blood,  nor  did  the  breath  of  freedom  come 
from  the  cannon's  mouth.    Love  is  the  liberator. 

Legally  to  abolish  unpaid  servitude  in  the  United 
States  was  hard;  but  the  abolition  of  mental  slavery 
is  a  more  difficult  task.  The  despotic  tendencies, 
inherent  in  mortal  mind  and  always  germinating 
in  new  forms  of  tyranny,  must  be  rooted  out 
through  the  action  of  the  divine  Mind. 

Men  and  women  of  all  climes  and  races  are  still 
in  bondage  to  material  sense,  ignorant  how  to 
obtain  their  freedom.  The  rights  of  man  were 
vindicated  in  a  single  section  and  on  the  lowest 
plane  of  human  life,  when  African  slavery  was 
abolished  in  our  land.  That  was  only  prophetic  of 
further  steps  towards  the  banishment  of  a  world- 
wide slavery,  found  on  higher  planes  of  existence 
and  under  more  subtle  and  depraving  forms.  ^ 

Slavery  is  not  the  legitimate  state  of  man.    God 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  226.  '  Ibid.,  pp.  225-6. 

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^mtxica  ^riumpfjant 

made  man  free.  Paul  said,  "  I  was  free  born."  All 
men  should  be  free.  "Where  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord 
is,  there  is  liberty."  Love  and  Truth  make  free, 
but  evil  and  error  lead  into  captivity. 

Christian  Science  raises  the  standard  of  liberty 
and  cries:  "Follow  me!  Escape  from  the  bondage 
of  sickness,  sin,  and  death ! "  Jesus  marked  out  the 
way.  Citizens  of  the  world,  accept  the  "glorious 
liberty  of  the  children  of  God,"  and  be  free!  This 
is  your  divine  right.  The  illusion  of  material  sense, 
not  divine  law,  has  bound  you,  entangled  your  free 
limbs,  crippled  your  capacities,  enfeebled  your 
body,  and  defaced  the  tablet  of  your  being.  * 

In  divine  order,  the  spiritual  standard  of 
Washington  and  Lincoln  has  asserted  its 
prerogative,  "under  God,"  to  rule  America 
in  righteousness,  and  the  people  are  destined 
to  accept  and  be  governed  by  this  standard. 
The  platform  admits  of  no  compromise. 
In  1866,  Mary  Baker  Eddy  discovered  and 
foimded  the  Science  of  being,  and  finally 
proclaimed  to  longing  humanity,  Christ's 
method  of  emancipation  from  materiality, 
sin,  sickness,  and  death,   in  the  following 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  227. 

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words :  ' '  Spirit  is  infinite ;  therefore  Spirit  is 
all.  There  is  no  matter.'"  This  was  the 
quickening  call, — the  "fixed  star,"  which 
blazed  forth  with  full  radiance,  and  which 
Mrs.  Eddy  describes  in  the  following  verse: 

Thou  gentle  beam  of  living  Love, 

And  deathless  Life ! 
Truth  infinite, — so  far  above 

All  mortal  strife. 

The  star  of  Bethlehem  is  the  light  of  all  ages — 
is  the  light  of  Love,  to-day  christening  religion  un- 
defiled,  divine  Science;  giving  to  it  a  new  name,  and 
the  white  stone  in  token  of  purity  and  permanence.  ^ 

A  special  despatch  from  Boston  to  the 
New  York  Trihwie  of  June  20,  1920,  an- 
notmces  that  "Harvard  astronomers  are 
watching  with  keen  interest  an  event  that 
occurred  more  than  two  hundred  thousand 
years  ago.  A  celestial  conflagration  that 
took  place  so  far  away  from  earth  that  the 
light  rays  are  just  reaching  here." 

^Miscellany,  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  p.  357. 
=»  Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  320. 

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lamcrica  tlTriumpfjant 

The  attention  of  the  Harvard  scientists 
was  attracted  to  the  matter  by  a  message 
from  the  Lick  Observatory  in  Cahfomia, 
which  states  that  the  new  blue-white  eagle 
star  (Nova  Aquila),  which  appeared  two 
years  ago  in  the  constellation  known  as 
Aqtiila  (eagle),  is  increasing  in  diameter,  is 
reappearing  in  increased  radiance.  The 
illumination  and  speed  of  the  light  (186,000 
miles  a  second)  is  incomprehensible  to  finite 
sense.  Immediately  after  the  transmission 
of  the  message,  the  press  stated  that  ' '  Cali- 
fornia is  shaken  by  a  series  of  earthquake 
shocks." 

All  phenomena  ak-e  the  expression  of 
thought.  Spiritual  thought  expresses  spirit- 
ual phenomena,  the  "love,  joy,  peace  of  the 
Holy  Spirit. ' ' '  Material  thought  is  manifest 
in  the  phenomena  of  sin,  sickness,  and  death. 

"To  be  carnally  minded  is  death;  but  to  be 
spiritually  minded  is  life  and  peace.  "^ 

'  Galatians  5 :  22.  '  Romans  8 :  6. 

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Jimetica  tlDriumpfjant 

To  those  who  are  reading  the  signs  of  the 
times,  this  second  appearing  of  the  eagle 
star  and  the  attendant  earthquakes,  portend 
the  imminent  revelation  of  a  great  influx  of 
spiritual  light,  which  will  once  more  produce 
the  experience,  precedent  to  the  resurrec- 
tion, as  recorded  by  Matthew: 

And,  behold,  the  veil  of  the  temple  was  rent  in 
twain  from  the  top  to  the  bottom;  and  the  earth  did 
quake,  and  the  rocks  rent;  and  the  graves  were 
opened;  and  many  bodies  of  the  saints  which  slept 
arose,  and  came  out  of  the  graves  after  his  resurrec- 
tion, and  went  into  the  holy  city,  and  appeared 
unto  many.  ^ 

The  martyrdom  of  Jesus  was  the  culminating  sin 
of  Pharisaism.  It  rent  the  veil  of  the  temple.  It 
revealed  the  false  foundations  and  superstructures 
of  superficial  religion,  tore  from  bigotry  and  super- 
stition their  coverings,  and  opened  the  sepulchre 
with  divine  Science, — immortality  and  Love.  ^ 

These  phenomena  will  not  be  understood 
by  those  who  remain  in  the  material  senses, — 
who  are  overtaken  while ' '  eating  and  drinking 

'  Matthew  27:  51-53. 

*  Science  and  Health,  p.  597,  excerpt  from  definition  of  "  veil. " 

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ilmerica  ^riumpfjant 

with  the  drunken,"  who  are  asleep  in  the 
darkness  of  belief  of  life,  truth,  intelligence, 
and  substance  in  matter  and  who  are  drunk 
with  pride  of  place  and  power,  greed,  hypoc- 
risy, fear,  and  the  qualities  of  the  carnal  mind, 
with  its  resultant  phenomenon, — death. 

Stay  yourselves,  and  wonder;  cry  ye  out,  and  cry: 
they  are  drunken,  but  not  with  wine;  they  stagger, 
but  not  with  strong  drink.  For  the  Lord  hath 
poured  out  upon  you  the  spirit  of  deep  sleep,  and 
hath  closed  your  eyes.  .  .  .  And  the  vision  of  all 
is  become  unto  you  as  the  words  of  a  book  that  is 
sealed.  .  .  .  Wherefore  the  Lord  said,  Forasmuch 
as  this  people  draw  near  me  with  their  mouth,  and 
with  their  lips  do  honour  me,  but  have  removed 
their  heart  far  from  me,  and  their  fear  toward  me  is 
taught  by  the  precept  of  men :  Therefore  behold,  I 
will  proceed  to  do  a  marvellous  work  among  this 
people,  even  a  marvellous  work  and  a  wonder:  for 
the  wisdom  of  their  wise  men  shall  perish,  and  the 
understanding  of  their  prudent  men  shall  be  hid.  ^ 

Mrs.  Eddy  says,  "Every  object  in  ma- 
terial thought  will  be  destroyed.  "^  By  those 

'  Isaiah 29:  9-1 1,  13,  14.  '  Science  and  Health,  p.  267. 

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who  will  be  found  thinking  materially, — 
putting  their  trust  in  material  man,  material 
government,  and  a  material  universe,  the 
phenomena  recorded  by  John  the  Revelator 
will  be  experienced. 

And,  lo,  there  was  a  great  earthquake  .... 
And  the  heaven  departed  as  a  scroll  when  it  is  rolled 
together;  and  every  mountain  and  island  were 
moved  out  of  their  places.  And  the  kings  of  the 
earth,  and  the  great  men,  and  the  rich  men,  and 
the  chief  captains  .  .  .  hid  themselves  in  the 
dens  and  in  the  rocks  of  the  mountains;  and  said 
to  the  mountains  and  rocks.  Fall  on  us,  and  hide 
us  from  the  face  of  him  that  sitteth  on  the  throne, 
and  from  the  wrath  of  the  Lamb:  For  the  great 
day  of  his  wrath  is  come ;  and  who  shall  be  able  to 
stand  ?  ^ 

I  will  overturn,  overturn,  overturn,  it:  and  it 
shall  be  no  more,  until  he  come  whose  right  it  is; 
and  I  will  give  it  him.  ^ 

And  they  [the  opposers  of  Christ]  shall  go  into 
the  holes  of  the  rocks,  and  into  the  caves  of  the 
earth,  for  fear  of  the  Lord, — [Christ,  at  his  second 
coming],  and  for  the  glory  of  his  majesty,  when  he 
ariseth  to  shake  terribly  the  earth.  ^ 

'  Revelation  6:  12,  14-17. 

»Ezekiel  21 :  27.  3lsaiah2:i9. 

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To  genuine  Christian  Scientists  who  are 
building  on  a  "  wholly  spiritual  foundation ' ' ' 
and  demonstrating  the  life  and  teachings  of 
Christ  Jesus,  viz., — the  power  of  spiritual 
understanding,  the  second  coming  of  Christ 
is  imminent.  Referring  to  the  opposition 
which  Christian  Scientists  meet  from  the 
materially  minded,  Mrs.  Eddy  says: 

If  one  would  not  quarrel  with  his  fellow-man  for 
waking  him  from  a  cataleptic  nightmare,  he  should 
not  resist  Truth,  which  banishes — yea,  forever 
destroys  with  the  higher  testimony  of  Spirit — the 
so-called  evidence  of  matter.  ^ 

The  government  was,  is,  and  forever  will 
be,  upon  the  shoulder  of  Christ,  theideal  man, 
the  son  of  the  living  God,  who  is  the  creator 
of  spiritual  man  and  the  spiritual  universe; 
and  there  is  no  other  God.  There  is  no 
other  man  and  no  other  universe,  since  there 
is  but  one  God,  eternal  Life  and  Love,  who 
is  over  all,  and  in  all,  that  is  real  and  eternal. 

'  Miscellany,  p.  357.  '  Science  and  Health,  p.  128. 

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This  infinite  logic  is  the  infinite  light — uncom- 
prehended, — yet  forever  giving  forth  more  light, 
because  it  has  no  darkness  to  emit.  ^ 

America,  America,  thou  gavest  birth 
To  light  that  lighteth  all  the  earth. 

God  keep  it  pure ! 
We  love  that  onward  leading  light; 
We  will  defend  it  with  our  might ; 

It  shall  endure!^ 

There  would  be  opportunity  for  dwelling 
at  length  upon  Mary  Baker  Eddy's  con- 
stant reference,  throughout  her  writings, 
to  her  full  realization  of  the  significance — 
in  type — of  the  history  of  America,  with  the 
discovery  of  Christian  Science.  She  quotes 
the  words  and  deeds  of  Washington,  Frank- 
lin, Jefferson,  and  others,  to  illustrate  vital 
metaphysical  points,  and  rings  out  her  pure 
Americanism  in  these  words: 

I  believe  strictly  in  the  Monroe  Doctrine,  in  our 
Constitution,  and  in  the  laws  of  God.  ^ 

'  No  and  Yes,  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  p.  i6. 
'  From  the  National  Anthem  Otir  A  merica.     Words  by  Alice 
Morgan  Harrison,  music  by  Augusta  E.  Stetson.     Published 
^  Miscellany,  p.  282.  hy  0.  ?c;h:rt;;t-r,  y.cw  Vorl: 

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And  again,  of  February  22,  Washing- 
ton's birthday,  in  connection  with  an  event 
of  Christian  Science  record,  Mrs.  Eddy  says: 

Memorable  date,  all  unthought  of  till  the  day  had 
passed!  Then  we  beheld  the  omen, — religious 
liberty — the  Father  of  the  universe  and  the  father 
of  our  nation  in  concurrence,  ^ 

And  again  she  states: 

Like  our  nation,  Christian  Science  has  its  De- 
claration of  Independence.  God  has  endowed  man 
with  inalienable  rights,  among  which  are  self- 
government,  reason,  and  conscience.^ 

In  Pulpit  and  Press,  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
p.  67,  we  read : 

It  was  exactly  one  hundred  years  ago  from  the 
date  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  when  on 
July  4,  1876,  the  first  Christian  Science  Association 
was  organized  by  seven  persons,  of  whom  the  fore- 
most was  Mrs.  Eddy. 

Of  her  "little  church  in  the  wilderness" 
is  recorded : 

As  the  Pilgrims  felt  the  strangeness  of  their  new 
»  Miscellany,  p.  148.  » Science  and  Health,  p.  106. 

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home,  the  vast  gloom  of  the  mysterious  forests,  and 
knew  not  the  trials  before  them,  so  this  little  band 
of  pioneers,  guided  by  their  dauntless  Leader  and 
teacher,  starting  out  on  their  labors  against  the 
currents  of  dogma,  creed,  sickness,  and  sin,  must 
have  felt  a  peculiar  sense  of  isolation.  .  .  .  This 
was  indeed  the  little  church  in  the  wilderness,  and 
few  knew  of  its  teachings,  but  those  few  saw  the 
grandeur  of  its  work,  and  were  willing  to  labor  for 
the  Cause.  ^ 

In  Miscellaneous  Writings,^  Mrs.  Eddy 
records  her  divine  perception  of  the  Ameri- 
can and  Christian  idea: 

The  day  we  celebrate  reminds  us  of  the  heroes 
and  heroines  who  counted  not  their  own  lives  dear 
to  them,  when  they  sought  the  New  England  shores, 
not  as  the  flying  nor  as  conquerors,  but,  steadfast 
in  faith  and  love,  to  build  upon  the  rock  of  Christ, 
the  true  idea  of  God — the  supremacy  of  Spirit  and 
the  nothingness  of  matter.  When  first  the  Pilgrims 
planted  their  feet  on  Plymouth  Rock,  frozen  ritual 
and  creed  should  forever  have  melted  away  in  the 
fire  of  love  which  came  down  from  heaven.  The 
Pilgrims  came  to  establish  a  nation  in  true  freedom, 
in  the  rights  of  conscience. 

I  Miscellany,  p.  50.  ' '  Page  176. 

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jimerica  tlTrmmjpl^ant 

And  in  Pulpit  and  Press, "^  Mrs.  Eddy  says: 

Rome's  fallen  fanes  and  silent  Aventine  is  glory's 
tomb;  her  pomp  and  power  lie  low  in  dust.  Our 
land,  more  favored,  had  its  Pilgrim  Fathers.  On 
shores  of  solitude,  at  Plymouth  Rock,  they  planted 
a  nation's  heart, — the  rights  of  conscience,  imperish- 
able glory.  No  dream  of  avarice  or  ambition  broke 
their  exalted  purpose,  theirs  was  the  wish  to  reign 
in  hope's  reality — the  realm  of  Love. 

This  "nation's  heart," — typifies  the  great 
heart  of  Christ,  upon  whose  shoulder, 
unseen  by  the  materialist,  rests  the  govern- 
ment of  America  triumphant.  This  "na- 
tion's heart"  is  correlated  by  Mrs.  Eddy 
with  her  discovery  of  Christian  Science,  and 
recorded  in  the  comer-stone  of  her  church. 
The  Mother  Church  in  Boston,  which,  spirit- 
ually interpreted,  is  "the  structure  of  Truth 
and  Love,"  not  a  material  edifice  or  symbol. 
On  page  144  of  Miscellaneous  Writings 
appear  these  words : 

On  this  memorable  day  there  are  laid  away  .  .  . 
[the  Holy  Bible]  your  textbook,  Science  and  Health 
'Page  10. 

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with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,  and  other  works  written  by 
the  same  author,  your  teacher,  the  Discoverer  and 
Founder  of  Christian  Science;  without  pomp  or 
pride,  laid  away  as  a  sacred  secret  in  the  heart  of  a 
rock,  there  to  typify  the  prophecy,  "And  a  man 
shall  be  as  an  hiding  place  from  the  wind,  and  a 
covert  from  the  tempest;  ...  as  the  shadow  of  a 
great  rock  in  aweary  land";  henceforth  to  whisper 
our  Master's  promise,  "Upon  this  rock  I  will  build 
my  church;  and  the  gates  of  hell  shall  not  prevail 
against  it." 

The  144th  anniversary  of  American  In- 
dependence, and  300th  anniversary  of  the 
landing  of  the  Pilgrims,  is  momentous  as 
type.  It  S3rmbolizes  fullness,  completeness, 
spiritual  unfoldment,  appearing.  The  Bible 
and  Mrs.  Eddy's  writings  note  the  spiritual 
signification  of  numbers.  One  hundred  and 
forty-four  represents  nine  times  sixteen,  or 
twelve  times  twelve.  Sixteen  symbolizes 
four-square.  Nine  represents  three  times 
three;  the  number  three  expresses  com- 
pletion. In  speaking  of  her  discovery  of 
Christian  Science, — and  Mrs,  Eddy  defines 

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Christian  Science  as  the  Science  of  Christ, 
or  Truth,' — she  says: 

My  conclusions  were  reached  by  allowing  the 
evidence  of  this  revelation  to  multiply  with  mathe- 
matical certainty  and  the  lesser  demonstration  to 
prove  the  greater,  as  the  product  of  three  multiplied 
by  three,  equaling  nine,  proves  conclusively  that 
three  times  three  duodecillions  must  be  nine  duo- 
deciilions, — not  a  fraction  more,  not  a  unit  less.  ^ 

The  number  twelve  expresses  infinity, 
oneness;  tv^elve  times  twelve,  therefore, 
expresses  the  fullness  of  fullness, — the  pure, 
radiant  effulgence  of  light,  hitherto  unper- 
ceived. 

The  symbolic  number  seven  (7)  was  "early  ac- 
counted sacred." — Webster. 

The  Infinite  is  One,  and  this  One  is  Spirit ;  Spirit 
is  God,  and  this  God  is  Infinite  Good. 

This  simple  statement  of  Oneness  is  the  only 
possible  correct  version  of  Christian  Science.  ^ 

'  The  Standard  Dictionary  gives  the  following  definition  of 
"science  " :  "Knowledge  gained  and  verified  by  exact  observa- 
tion and  correct  thinking." 

» Science  and  Health,  p.  108. 

3  Miscellany,  p.  356. 

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America  tlTrmmpfjant 

That  Mrs.  Eddy  saw,  as  did  the  Revela- 
tor,  the  number  144,  pregnant  with  light 
and  harmony,  is  shown  by  her  conception 
of  the  Hghting  of  the  original  Mother 
Church : 

A  sunburst  in  the  center  of  the  ceiling  takes  the 
place  of  chandeliers.  There  is  a  disc  of  cut  glass 
.  .  .  covering  one  hundred  and  forty-four  electric 
lights,  in  the  form  of  a  star,  which  is  twenty-one 
inches  from  point  to  point,  the  center  being  a  pure 
white  light,  and  each  ray  under  prisms  which  reflect 
the  rainbow  tints.  ^ 

Here  we  have  the  completion  of  the 
number  21,  3  times  7,  leading  up  to  the 
source  of  the  light.  From  Science  and  Health , 
page  508,  we  read: 

The  third  stage  in  the  order  of  Christian  Science 
is  an  important  one  to  the  human  thought,  letting 
in  the  light  of  spiritual  understanding.  This  period 
corresponds  to  the  resurrection,  when  Spirit  is 
discerned  to  be  the  Life  of  all,  and  the  deathless 
Life,  or  Mind,  dependent  upon  no  material  organi- 

'  Pulpit  and  Press,  p.  25. 

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zation.  Our  Master  reappeared  to  his  students, — 
to  their  apprehension  he  rose  from  the  grave, — on 
the  third  day  of  his  ascending  thought,  and  so 
presented  to  them  the  certain  sense  of  eternal  Life. 
The  numerals  of  infinity,  called  seven  days,  can 
never  be  reckoned  according  to  the  calendar  of  time. 
These  days  will  appear  as  mortality  disappears, 
and  they  will  reveal  eternity,  newness  of  Life,  in 
which  all  sense  of  error  forever  disappears,  and 
thought  accepts  the  divine,  infinite  calculus. ' 

"The  divine  infinite  calculus, "  is  summed 
up  in  Mrs.  Eddy's  quotation  of  the  twenty- 
third  Psalm  with  her  interpretation,  as 
follows:  "I  will  dwell  in  the  house  [the  con- 
sciousness] of  [Love]  for  ever.'"' 

Mary  Baker  Eddy,  the  feminine  repre- 
sentative of  the  Motherhood  of  God — to 
human  apprehension  seen  as  a  woman — 
will  demonstrate  this  "glorified  spiritual 
idea  of  the  everpresent  God,  "^  and  will 
appear  "clothed  with  the  sim  [spiritual  light, 
eternal   substance]   and  upon  her  head  a 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  520.  'Ibid.,  p.  578. 

2  Message  for  1902,  p.  16. 

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crown  of  twelve  stars.'"  As  Christ  Jesus 
represented  to  human  sense  the  Fatherhood 
of  God,  so  at  his  second  appearing  the 
Motherhood  of  God  will  be  apprehended. 
This  appearing  of  the  compound  spiritual 
idea,  the  eternal  man  of  God's  creating,  is 
imminent. 

The  twelve  tribes  of  Israel  with  all  mortals, — 
separated  by  belief  from  man's  divine  origin  and  the 
true  idea, — will  through  much  tribulation  yield  to 
the  activities  of  the  divine  Principle  of  man  in  the 
harmony  of  Science.  These  are  the  stars  in  the 
crown  of  rejoicing.* 

During  this  purifying  process  of  yielding 
to  the  activities  of  Spirit,  which  involves 
mighty  wrestlings  with  false  mortal 
thoughts,  the  sealing  of  the  "one  hundred 
forty  and  four  thousand  of  all  the  tribes  of 
the  children  of  Israel,  "^  is  taking  place. 

'Revelation  12:  i. 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  562. 

3  Revelation  7 :  4. 

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Hurt  not  the  earth,  neither  the  sea,  nor  the  trees, 
till  we  have  sealed  the  servants  of  God  in  their 
foreheads.  ^ 

This  sealing,  renaming,  and  reappearing  of 
God's  man,  whom  He  made  in  His  own 
image  and  likeness,  spiritual  and  eternal,  or 
the  Christ  (Truth)  man,  was  prophesied  by 
the  Revelator  after  the  "four  angels,  stand- 
ing on  the  four  comers  of  the  earth,  holding 
the  four  winds  of  the  earth,  "^  had  appeared. 

Spiritual  definition  of  "Angels": 

God's  thoughts  passing  to  man;  spiritual  intui- 
tions, pure  and  perfect,  the  inspiration  of  goodness, 
purity,  and  immortality,  counteracting  all  evil, 
sensuality,  and  mortality.  ^ 

Spiritual  definition  of  "Earth": 

A  sphere;  a  type  of  eternity  and  immortality, 
which  are  likewise  without  beginning  or  end  .  .  . 
a  compound  idea.'* 

'  Revelation,  7  :  3.  'Ibid.,  7:  i. 

3  Science  and  Health,  p.  581.  *Ibid.,  p.  585. 

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Spiritual  definition  of  "Wind": 

That  which  indicates  the  might  of  omnipotence 
and  the  movements  of  God's  spiritual  government, 
encompassing  all  things.  ^ 

The  sublimity,  purity,  spiritual  beauty, 
and  significance  of  this  metaphysical  picture 
with  its  complete  type  in  numerals, — four 
times  three  equals  twelve, — typifies  the 
imminent  revelation  (through  woman, 
known  to  humanity  in  this  age  as  Mary 
Baker  Eddy),  points  to  the  fulfilling  of  the 
law  of  Love,  and  the  appearing  of  the  spirit- 
ual idea, — ^man  in  God's  image,  whom  God 
endowed  with  spiritual  dominion,  which  will 
destroy  forever  the  claim  of  sin,  sickness, 
and  death,  and  will  reveal  God  and  His 
perfect  universe,  governed  by  the  law  of 
eternal  Mind,  Life,  and  Love. 

In  an  address  delivered  on  July  4,  1897,  at 
Pleasant  View,  Concord,  New  Hampshire, 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  597. 
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America  tlTriumpfjant 

before  members   of  The   Mother  Church, 
Mrs.  Eddy  said: 

Christian  Science  is  not  only  the  acme  of  Science, 
but  the  crown  of  Christianity.  It  is  universal.  .  .  . 
It  is  the  pearl  priceless,  whereof  our  Master  said, 
"If  a  man  findeth,  he  goeth  and  selleth  all  that  he 
hath,  and  buyeth  it."' 

Definition  of  "Science": 

Knowledge  gained  and  verified  by  exact  obser- 
vation and  correct  thinking.  ^ 

It  is  nearly  two  thousand,  years  since 
John's  radiant  vision  of  the  royally  crowned 
woman  burst  upon  him,  which  is  chronicled 
in  the  book  of  Revelation  (chapter  12:  i). 
Mrs.  Eddy's  spiritual  discernment  has  re- 
corded this  fact  in  the  following  words : 

Progress  is  spiritual.  Progress  is  the  maturing 
conception  of  divine  Love;  it  demonstrates  the 
scientific,  sinless  life  of  man  and  mortal's  painless 
departure  from  matter  to  Spirit,  not  through  death, 

^  Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  252. 
'  Standard  Dictionary. 

37 
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but  through  the  true  idea  of  Life, — and  Life  not  in 
matter  but  in  Mind. ' 

To-day  the  "crown  of  twelve  stars"  adds 
to  its  radiance  of  eternity  and  Light,  the 
' '  pearl  priceless, ' '  and  reveals  thirteen  jewels. 
The  number  twelve  is  America's  foimdation 
number,  and  the  thirteenth  State  was  added 
later.  The  twelve  tribes  of  Israel  became 
thirteen,  through  the  forcing  of  Manasseh, 
— Joseph's  first  bom, — into  the  last  or  thir- 
teenth place.  By  Jacob's  act  in  adopting 
Ephraim  as  the  elder,  Manasseh,  through  ex- 
perience and  persecution,  through  his  resist- 
ance to  autocracy  and  his  willingness  to  meet 
and  conquer,  with  spiritual  understanding, 
the  brutal  qualities  of  "aggression,  oppres- 
sion, and  pride  of  power,"  which  Ephraim 
possessed  and  exercised, — through  his  (Man- 
asseh's)  obedience  to  the  law  of  God, 
Manasseh  gained  the  spiritual  "dominion" 
with  which  God  endowed  man  whom  He 

'  Miscellany,  p.  i8i. 

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America  ^riumpfjant 

made  in  His  own  image  and  likeness.  The 
"man-child,"  is  the  first-bom  to  whom  the 
Revelator  refers.  John  saw  the  inseparabil- 
ity of  the  Fatherhood  and  Motherhood  of 
God,  expressed  in  the  man-child,  the  spirit- 
ual idea  or  Christ, — who  was  to  "rule  all 
nations  and  peoples — imperatively,  abso- 
lutely, finally — with  divine  Science.'"  It  is 
interesting  to  recall  that  Mrs.  Eddy  speaks, 
in  Retrospection  and  Introspection,''  of  the 
parable  of  the  "Prodigal  Son."  The  prodi- 
gal son  symbolizes  the  coming  of  Ephraim 
(Great  Britain)  to  Manasseh,  who  represents 
the  fullness  of  the  reflection  of  divine  Love, 
in  its  more  infinite  meaning.  This  is  the 
drawing  together  to  the  outstretched  arms 
of  divine  Love,  all  of  God's  little  ones,  who 
have  wrestled  with  and  overcome,  through 
spiritual  power,  belief  of  life,  truth,  intelli- 
gence, and  substance  in  matter,  which  belief 

»  Science  mid  Health,  p.  i8i. 

'  Retrospection  and  Introspection,  p.  91. 

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America  ^riumpJjant 

is  opposed  to  the  law  of  God,  who  is  infinite 
Life  and  Love.    Thus  is  the  covenant 


.  .  .  made  with  Abraham  .  .  .  become  an  oath 
unto  Isaac,  confirmed  unto  Jacob  for  a  law,  and  to 
Israel  for  an  everlasting  covenant.  ^ 

Spiritual  definition  of  "Abraham": 

Fidelity ;  faith  in  the  divine  Life  and  in  the  eternal 
Principle  of  being. 

This  patriarch  illustrated  the  purpose  of  Love  to 
create  trust  in  good,  and  showed  the  life-preserving 
power  of  spiritual  understanding.  ^ 

Spiritual  definition  of '  'Children  of  Israel" : 

The  representatives  of  Soul,  not  corporeal  sense; 
the  offspring  of  Spirit,  who,  having  wrestled  with 
error,  sin,  and  sense,  are  governed  by  divine  Science; 
some  of  the  ideas  of  God  beheld  as  men,  casting  out 
error  and  healing  the  sick;  Christ's  offspring. ^ 

Spiritual  definition  of  "Jacob": 
Inspiration;  the  revelation  of  Science,  in  which 

'  I  Chronicles  i6:  i6,  17. 

=>  Science  and  Health,  p.  579.  ^  Ibid. ,  p.  583. 

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America  tE^riumpfjant 

the  so-called  material  senses  yield  to  the  spiritual 
sense  of  Life  and  Love.  ^ 

America,  America,  in  thee  is  found 
Manasseh's  tribe,  to  Ephraim  bound 

By  Israel's  vow, 
Whose  destiny  is  heaven-sealed ; 
Far  spreading  vine  in  fruitful  field, 

God's  planting,  thou  !^ 

I  thank  thee,  O  Father,  Lord  of  heaven  and  earth, 
that  thou  hast  hid  these  things  from  the  wise 
and  prudent,  and  hast  revealed  them  unto  babes. 
— Jesus.  ^ 

Lest  we  forget,  it  is  highly  important  to 
hold  before  us  always  the  fact  that  our 
national  childlikeness  has  been  the  corner- 
stone of  America  triumphant.  Washington, 
at  Valley  Forge,  knelt  as  a  little  child,  and 
"talked  with  God,"  asking  for  divine 
guidance  at  that  crucial  hour.  Lincoln 
was  always  guided  by  the  same  confident 
trust  in  an  ever-present  Father-Mother 
God.     The  utmost  simplicity,  spontaneous 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.,  589. 

'Our  America.  3 Luke  10:  21. 

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America  ^riumpfjant 

childlike  joy,  purity,  beauty  of  rhythm,  in- 
spired our  first  national  expression  in  music, 
which  was  a  little  song  entitled,  "My  Days 
Have  Been  So  Wondrous  Free,"  which  was 
written  for  and  dedicated  to  "the  young,  as 
a  study  for  the  clavecin."  The  composer, 
Francis  Hopkinson,  was  a  signer  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  and  an  active 
member  of  the  Convention  of  1787  which 
formed  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States.  He  was  a  close  friend  of  Washing-' 
ton,  to  whom  the  first  copy  of  the  song  was 
sent.  Washington's  flute  now  rests  tenderly 
at  Mt.  Vernon  on  the  little  spinet  of  Nellie 
Custis.  The  song  sings  of  the  birds,  trees, 
brooks,  zephyrs,  and  ends  with  a  dainty, 
delicate  dance  movement,  which  suggests 
the  purest  rhythm  and  grace.  This  spiritual 
sense  of  grace  and  rhythmic  joy  is  at  the  root 
of  all  creation,  and  all  true  art  expresses  it. 
"The  fruits  of  the  spirit  are  love,  peace,  and 
joy."    (Paul.) 

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^mtxita  ^riumpfjant 

We  quote  the  following  from  The  Chris- 
tian Science  Monitor: 

Washington,  alike  statesman,  soldier,  and  patriot, 
stands  alone.  He  was  not  only  the  greatest  Ameri- 
can ;  he  was  also  one  of  the  greatest  men  the  worid 
has  ever  known.  Few  centuries  and  few  countries 
have  ever  seen  his  like.  Among  the  people  of  Eng- 
lish stock  there  is  none  to  compare  with  him,  unless 
perhaps  Cromwell,  utterly  different  though  the 
latter  was.  Of  Americans,  Lincoln  alone  is  worthy 
to  stand  even  second. ' 

Mrs.  Eddy  says: 

Eternal  Life  must  be  brought  to  light  by  the 
understanding  that  there  is  no  death,  as  well  as  by 
other  graces  of  Spirit.  ^ 

To  discern  the  rhythm  of  Spirit,  and  to  be  holy, 
thought  must  be  purely  spiritual.^ 

Spiritual  man  is  a  mental  being,  an 
emanation  of  Spirit,  Mind,  Life,  Truth,  and 
Love.  This  divine  rh3rthm  and  harmony 
of   purely  spiritual  thinking  is  beautifully 

'  Theodore  Roosevelt. 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  429.  3  Ibid.,  p.  510. 

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America  ^riumpljant 

touched  upon  by  Mrs.  Eddy  in  The  Great 
Discovery^: 

As  sweet  music  ripples  in  one's  thoughts  of  it, 
like  the  brooklet  in  its  meandering  midst  pebbles 
and  rocks,  before  the  mind  can  duly  express  it  to 
the  ear — so  the  harmony  of  divine  Science,  first 
broke  upon  my  sense,  before  gathering  experience 
and  confidence  to  articulate  it.  Its  natural  mani- 
festation is  beautiful  and  euphonious,  but  its  written 
expression  increases  in  power  and  perfection  under 
the  guidance  of  the  great  Master.  The  divine  hand 
led  me  into  a  new  world  of  light  and  Life,  a  fresh 
universe — old  to  God,  but  new  to  His  "little  one." 

It  is  also  helpful  to  know  that  the  first 
expression  in  music  of  the  Anglo-Saxon 
consciousness,  through  written  song,  "Sum- 
er  is  I-Cumen  In,"  breathed  of  the  birds 
and  springtime.  This  was  written  a  cen- 
tury before  Chaucer.  The  English  language, 
with  its  marvelous  vitality  and  structural 
beauty,  typifies  "the  new  tongue"  of  the 
spiritual  universe.    Wholly  spiritual  think- 

'  Retrospection  and  Introspection,  p.  27. 

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America  ^riumpfjant 

ing  will  be  demanded  by  mankind  in  the 
near  future,  and  the  demonstration  and 
phenomenon  of  wholly  spiritual  thinking 
will  reveal  man  as  God's  child,  idea  or  son, 
and  the  imi verse  as  spiritual  and  eternal, 
peopled  with  God's  perfect  ideas  and  gov- 
erned by  Christ.  In  this  spiritual  universe, 
the  language  of  Spirit  is  the  "new"  tongue,' 
and  the  "new  heaven  and  the  new  earth, ""^ 
are  the  phenomena. 

After  my  discovery  of  Christian  Science,  most  of 
the  knowledge  I  had  gleaned  from  schoolbooks 
vanished  like  a  dream.  Learning  was  so  illumined 
that  grammar  was  eclipsed.  Etymology  was  divine 
history,  voicing  the  idea  of  God  in  man's  origin  and 
signification.  Syntax  was  spiritual  order  and  unity. 
Prosody,  the  song  of  angels,  and  no  earthly  or  in- 
glorious theme.  ^ 

The  phenomenon  of  the  winning  of  the 
thirteenth  series  of  the  yacht  races  on  the 
twenty-seventh  day  of  the  seventh  month, 

'  Mark  i6: 17.  '  Revelation  21:1. 

3  Retrospection  and  Introspection,  p.  10. 

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America  tKriumpfjant 

at  eight  o'clock  in  the  evening,  by  the 
American  boat  Resolute,  symbolizes  not  only 
that  the  cup  of  blessing  must,  logically, 
remain  with  Manasseh  (America),  but  em- 
phasizes the  fact  that  grace,  delicacy, 
fieetness,  spiritual  alertness,  expressed  in 
beauty  of  conception,  of  form,  outline,  and 
color,  are  divinely  triumphant  qualities  of 
spiritual  leadership.  The  press  spoke  of 
the  Resolute  as  a  "bright  beacon,  holding 
true" ;  as  "a  white  flier,  due  west,  and  sailing 
directly  into  the  burning  eye  of  the  setting 
sun,  glowing  like  a  vast,  incandescent  orb"; 
and  again,  as  a  "starry  banner,  shining 
through  the  storm,"  as  "a  white  fairy,"  as 
"the  white  hope,  with  grace  of  a  white  swan, 
turning  around  like  a  lilypad";  again,  as 
"a  great  White  Bird  .  .  .  she  seemed  to 
fly — to  run  home  like  a  living  thing,  with 
the  rosy  sun's  light,  suggesting  a  rainbow." 
These  excerpts  are  from  the  Sun  mid  New 
York  Herald  and  the  New  York  Tribune. 

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America  tE^riumptiant 

These  concepts  of  the  Resolute  are  of 
beautiful  significance,  and  correlate  the 
tender  types  which  Jesus  used  in  his  parables 
to  illustrate  his  mighty  truths.  For  in- 
stance, the  lilies  of  the  field,  the  tiny  mus- 
tard seed,  the  fowls  of  the  air,  the  little  fishes, 
the  pearl  of  great  price,  the  lambs,  and  little 
children.  Most  potent  of  all  is  the  indissol- 
uble relation,  in  type,  to  the  consciousness 
of  the  first-bom  of  Spirit,  which  Manasseh 
typifies,  and  the  restitution,  redemption  of 
the  blessing,  through  Manasseh  to  Joseph, 
which,  in  Jacob's  far-seeing  wisdom,  seemed 
to  have  been  denied  him,  until,  through 
persecution,  and  demonstration  of  the  law 
of  brotherly,  or  spiritual  love,  he  should 
redeem  his  birthright,  and  prove  his  right 
to  rule  in  spiritual  understanding  of  God's 
Law. 

Spiritual  definition  of  "Joseph": 

Ptire  affection  blessing  its  enemies.* 
'  Science  and  Health,  p.  589. 
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America  ^riumpfjant 

America  is  the  Manasseh,  the  first-bom 
of  Joseph,  and  will  redeem  his  birthright. 
Mrs.  Eddy  says: 

Beloved,  that  which  purifies  the  affections  also 
strengthens  them,  removes  fear,  subdues  sin,  and 
endues  with  divine  power;  that  which  refines 
character  at  the  same  time  humbles,  exalts,  and 
commands  a  man,  and  obedience  gives  him  courage, 
devotion,  and  attainment.  For  this  hour,  for  this 
period,  for  spiritual  sacrament,  sacrifice,  and 
ascension,  we  unite  in  giving  thanks.  For  the  body 
of  Christ,  for  the  life  that  we  commemorate  and 
would  emulate,  for  the  bread  of  heaven  whereof  if  a 
man  eat,  "he  shall  live  forever,"  for  the  cup  red 
with  loving  restitution,  redemption,  and  inspiration 
we  give  thanks.  The  signet  of  the  great  heart, 
given  to  me  in  a  little  symbol,  seals  the  covenant  of 
everlasting  love.  May  apostate  praise  return  to  its 
first  love,  above  the  symbol  seize  the  spirit,  speak 
the  "new  tongue" — and  may  thought  soar  and 
Soul  be. ' 

On  Jtily  1 6,  1920,  Resolute  gained  her  first 
victory. 

On  the  evening  of  the  fifteenth  day  of 

'  Miscellany,  p.  131. 

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July,  1920, — the  day  on  which  the  races 
began — a  festival  of  sacred  and  secular 
song  was  given  on  the  deck  of  the  United 
States  battleship,  Tennessee,  by  the  Oratorio 
Society  of  the  New  York  City  Christian 
Science  Institute.  It  concluded  with  the 
triumphant  strains  of  the  ''Hallelujah 
Chorus, "  (accompanied  by  the  ship's  band) 
which  rang  out  with  conscious  spiritual 
dominion  over  the  waters.  Our  America 
was  sung,  also  accompanied  by  the  band. 

America,  America,  on-pressing  van 
Of  all  the  hopes  of  waking  man, 

We  love  thy  flag! 
Thy  stately  flag  of  steadfast  stars, 
And  white,  close  held  to  heart-red  bars, 

Which  none  shall  drag!' 

From  the  chorus  rang  out  the  triumphant 
words. 

Hallelujah !  for  the  Lord  God  Omnipotent  reigneth. 
The  kingdom  of  this  world  is  become  the  kingdom 

^  Our  America. 

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of  our  Lord  and  of  His  Christ;  and  He  shall  reign 
forever  and  ever.  King  of  kings,  and  Lord  of 
lords.    Hallelujah  ! 

The  following  day,  Resolute  upheld 
America's  standard.  The  sea  has  played  a 
vital  part  in  America's  history.  On  Jidy 
30,  1 6 19,  was  held  the  first  meeting  of  the 
first  representative  assembly  in  America, 
when  the  Council  and  House  of  Burgesses, 
elected  by  the  three  colonies  in  Virginia, 
gathered  in  the  little  wooden  church  at 
Jamestown,  to  transact  the  business  of  the 
new  community,  with  a  Governor  of  liberal 
ideas.  It  marks  the  beginning  of  the  whole 
legislative  system.  It  was  a  new  departure 
in  "government  of  the  people,  by  the  people, 
for  the  people."  This  stone  was  placed  in 
the  temple  of  American  liberty,  by  the  small 
band  of  fighters  against  autocracy  and 
despotism,  a  year  before  the  Pilgrims  landed 
on  Plymouth  Rock.  From  The  Christian 
Science   Monitor  we   quote   the  following, 

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which  indicates  the  fraternal  recognition  of 
England  (Ephraim)  for  America  (Manas- 
seh) — Brothers  John  and  Jonathan : 

The  Women's  Freedom  League  seems  to  feel  that 
while  England  and  America  are  vying  with  each 
other  to  do  honor  to  the  Pilgrim  Fathers,  too  little 
has  been  said  about  the  Pilgrim  Mothers.  They 
are,  therefore,  commemorating  these  women  who 
sailed  in  the  Mayflower,  by  a  festival  in  the  grounds 
of  Lord  Leverhulme's  house  at  Hampstead,  which 
he  has  lent  for  this  purpose. 

In  his  efforts  to  plant  Christianity  on 
these  shores,  the  Norseman,  Lief  Ericson, 
in  the  year  looo,  planted  his  standard  in 
New  Bedford,  on  the  Massachusetts  coast.' 

Christopher  Columbus,  almost  five  him- 
dred  years  later,  landed  at  San  Salvador. 
Thus   the   discovery  of  America   militant, 

'  "The  Scandinavians,  after  having  colonized  Iceland  in 
875  A.D.  and  Greenland  in  983,  had  by  the  year  1000  discovered 
America  as  far  down  as  41  degrees  30  minutes  north  latitude, 
a  point  near  to  New  Bedford,  in  the  State  of  Massachu- 
setts." — Chambers's  Encyclopedia. 

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•America  ^riumpfjant 

under   spiritual  law   and  order,  remained 
Anglo-Saxon. 

Thus  has  the  great  heart  of  Love, — the 
Motherhood  of  God, — ever  brooded  over 
and  protected  the  destiny  of  this  nation, 
America. 

The  bird  of  hope  is  singing 
A  lightsome  lay,  a  cooing  call, 
And  in  her  heart  is  beating 
A  love  for  all. 

"  'Tis  peace  not  power  I  seek, 
'Tis  meet  that  man  be  meek.  " 

— Mary  Baker  Eddy.  ' 

The  Mayflower  covenant  was  formulated 
by  the  second  little  flock  of  fighters  for  "life, 
liberty,  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness,"  on 
disturbed  waters,  which  reflected  the  con- 
flict aboard.    The  record  states,  that  the 

,  ,  .  day  before  we  came  to  harbor,  observing 
some  not  well  affected  to  unitie  and  concord,  but 

'  Miscella7ty,  p.  341. 

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America  ^riumpfjant 

gave  some  appearance  of  faction,  it  was  thought 
good  that  there  should  be  an  association  and  agree- 
ment that  we  should  combine  together  in  one  body. 

The  covenant  is  then  stated  to  be  "under- 
taken for  the  glory  of  God  and  advancement 
of  the  Christian  faith." 

In  metaphor,  the  dry  land  illustrates  the  absolute 
formations  instituted  by  Mind,  while  water  sym- 
bolizes the  elements  of  Mind. ' 

When  the  "elements  of  Mind,"  or  the 
true  concord  of  unity  of  purpose  and  right 
thinking,  was  established  by  the  little  band 
of  Pilgrims,  and  discord  was  eliminated,  the 
''dry  land,''  or  spiritual  reality — "the  abso- 
lute formations  instituted  by  Mind" — the 
rock  of  spiritual  tmderstanding  (America) 
appeared. 

Mrs.  Eddy  defines  the  true  United  States 
of  America,  a  people  united  in  the  demon- 
stration of  truth,  justice,  righteousness,  and 
liberty  when  she  speaks  of  the 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  507. 

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America  ^riumpj^ant 

.  .  .  children  of  one  common  Parent, — wherein 
and  whereby  Father,  Mother,  and  child  are  the 
divine  Principle  and  divine  idea,  even  the  divine 
"Us,"  — one  in  good  and  good  in  One.' 


This  divine  "Us" — or  trinity  of  numbers 
— has  its  highest  expression  in  the  reverse 
of  our  Seal,  the  "All-Seeing  Eye,"  which  is 
intentionally  enclosed  in  a  triangle,  at  the 
apex  of  the  pyramid.  This  sjnnbol  expresses 
the  conviction  of  the  founders  of  America, 
that  God  knew  the  hour  for  the  revelation 
of  the  capstone,  which  is  His  glory, — man 
in  His  image  and  likeness.  This  phenome- 
non, this  pyramid  or  capstone,  appears  on 
First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York 
City,  corner  of  96th  Street  and  Central 
Park  West.  It  is  the  first-born  branch 
church  of  The  Mother  Church,  Mrs.  Eddy's 
Church, The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scien- 
tist, Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  was  built 

^Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  i8. 
54 


by  Mrs.  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.  S.  D.,  a 
student  of  Mrs.  Eddy. 

Spiritual  definition  of  "Church": 

The  structure  of  Truth  and  Love.  ^ 

Mrs.  Eddy  wrote  to  Mrs.  Stetson  as 
follows : 

...  I  entrust  you  with  another  momentous 
move  namely  Our  memorial  of  Christian  Science, 
that  the  ages  will  look  upon  and  be  lifted  up.  ^ 

(Facsimile  letter  from  Vital  Issues  in  Christian 
Science,  p.  375- ') 

Mrs.  Eddy  entrusted  her  student, 
Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.  S.  D.,  with  a  "mo- 
mentous move"  when  the  "our  memorial  of 
Christian  Science"  was  erected  in  1899,  and 
externalized  in  Concord  granite  with  the 
following  inscription : 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  583. 

'  Published  by  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York. 

55 


America  ^riumpJjant 

First  Church 

OF 

Christ  Scientist 

New  York  City 

Erected 

Anno  Domini  MDCCCXCIX 

A  Tribute 

OF 

Love  and  Gratitude 

To  Our 

Leader  and  Teacher 

The  Reverend 

Mary  Baker  Eddy 

Discoverer  and  Founder  of 

Christian  Science 

AND  Author 

OF  its  Text  Book 

Science  and  Health 

With  Key  to  the 

Scriptures 
56 


^merita  ^riumpfjant 

and  with  the  following  letter  from  Mrs. 
Eddy,  laid  in  the  comer-stone : 

Pleasant  View,  Concord,  N.  H. 

To  Mrs.  A.  E.  Stetson: 

Beneath  this  corner-stone,  in  this  silent,  sacred 
sanctuary  of  earth's  sweet  songs,  psans  of  praise 
and  records  of  Omnipotence,  I  leave  my  name  with 
thine  in  unity  and  love. 

Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy. 

November  30,  1899. 

The  structure,  or  edifice,  costing  one 
million  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
dollars,  and  paid  for  as  soon  as  com- 
pleted, was  indeed  a  "momentous  move" 
with  which  to  entrust  one  student,  who 
was  to  erect  this  "memorial"  without 
the  aid  of  any  but  herself  and  her  own 
students. 

It  is  the  only  church  in  the  world  in 
which  Mrs.  Eddy  has  placed  her  name 
in  a  comer-stone  with  a  student.  This 
is  a  well-known  and   established  fact  in 

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America  tlTriumpfjant 

Christian  Science  history.  In  a  letter, 
sent  to  Mrs.  Stetson's  church,  by  Mrs. 
Eddy,  on  the  occasion  of  the  dedication  of 
the  church,  November  29,  1903,  America's 
foundation,  in  type,  is  touched  upon  in 
these  words: 

In  this  lofty  temple,  dedicated  to  God  and 
humanity,  may  the  prophecy  of  Isaiah  be  fulfilled : 
"Fear  not;  I  have  called  thee  by  thy  name;  thou 
art  mine."  Within  its  sacred  walls  may  song  and 
sermon  generate  only  that  which  Christianity 
writes  in  broad  facts  over  great  continents — 
sermons  that  fell  forests  and  remove  mountains, 
songsof  joy  and  gladness.  .  .  .  The  tender  memor- 
ial engraven  on  your  grand  edifice  stands  for 
human  self  lost  in  divine  light,  melted  into  the 
radiance  of  His  likeness.  It  stands  for  meekness 
and  might,  for  Truth  as  attested  by  the  Founder  of 
your  denomination  and  emblazoned  on  the  fair 
escutcheon  of  your  church.  ^ 

The  builder  of  this  "tender  memorial," 
Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.  S.  D.,  bought  the 

^Miscellany,  p.  193. 

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^mtxita  ^riumpfiant 

"pearl  priceless,"  and  obtained  the  "crown 
of  Christianity." 

Buyeth  it !  Note  the  scope  of  that  saying,  even 
that  Christianity  is  not  merely  a  gift,  as  St.  Paul 
avers,  but  is  bought  with  a  price,  a  great  price;  and 
what  man  knoweth  as  did  our  Master  its  value,  and 
the  price  he  paid  for  it  ?  ^ 

Augusta  E.  Stetson  "paid  for  it"  in  bear- 
ing the  cross  and  drinking  the  cup  of  which 
Christ  Jesus  and  Mary  Baker  Eddy  drank 
to  gain  their  spiritual  dominion  and  crown 
of  immortality. 

Know  ye  not  that  they  which  run  in  a  race  run 
all,  but  one  receiveth  the  prize?  So  run,  that  ye 
may  obtain.  ^ 

The  obtaining  of  this  prize  is  the  result  of 
the  struggle  for  the  Mind  of  Christ — the 
striving  to  bring  every  thought  into  obed- 

'  Miscellaneous  Writings,  "Fourth  of  July  Address,"  p.  253. 
» I  Corinthians  9:  24. 

59 


ience  to  Truth.  This  strife  and  victory 
reveal  the  immortaUty,  vision,  strength, 
and  capacity  to  soar,  which  the  eagle,  on  oiir 
national  Seal,  typifies. 

America,  America,  thy  seer-graved  seal 
Foretells  the  perfect  Commonweal 

Of  God-made  men; 
Its  eagle  with  unwearied  wings 
Is  symbol  of  the  thought-seen  things 

Of  prophets'  ken.  * 

The  reason  for  the  adoption  of  the  eagle 
as  the  obverse  of  the  Seal,  can  be  found 
throughout  the  Bible.  On  Mount  Sinai, 
Moses  prophesied  the  revealing  of  America 
triumphant,  and  the  eagle  as  its  symbol. 

And  Moses  went  up  unto  God,  and  the  Lord 
called  unto  him  out  of  the  mountain,  saying:  Thus 
shalt  thou  say  to  the  house  of  Jacob,  and  tell  the 
children  of  Israel;  Ye  have  seen  what  I  did  unto  the 
Egyptians,  and  how  I  bare  you  on  eagles'  wings, 
and  brought  you  unto  myself.     Now  therefore,  if 

'Owr  America. 

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America  t!rrmmpf)ant 

ye  will  obey  my  voice  indeed,  and  keep  my  cove- 
nant, then  shall  ye  be  a  peculiar  treasure  unto  me 
above  all  people :  for  all  the  earth  is  mine.  ^ 

John,  the  Revelator,  speaks  of  the  woman, 
to  whom  was  given  "two  wings  of  a  great 
eagle  "^  typifying  America  among  the  na- 
tions and  also  the  spiritual  interpretation  of 
the  Scriptiires  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  in 
Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scrip- 
tures. 

The  "tender  memorial,"  First  Church  of 
Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City,  also 
typifies,  at  this  hour,  the  spiritual  ark  which 
"went  upon  the  face  of  the  waters,"  and 
which  the  waters  "bare  up. "^  Spiritual 
definition  of  "Ark": 

Safety;  the  idea  or  reflection  of  Truth,  proved 
to  be  as  immortal  as  its  Principle.  .  .  God  and 
man  co-existent  and  eternal.  '^ 

'Exodus  19:3-6. 

*  Revelation  12:  14. 
3  Genesis  7:  17,  18. 

*  Science  and  Health,  p.  581. 

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America  tE^riumpfjant 

The  most  striking  type  regarding  this 
edifice  is  the  obeHsk,  with  the  capstone,  a 
pyramid  in  form.  Thus  this  church  sym- 
boHzes  man.  It  is  a  "  memorial  of  Christian 
Science,  that  the  ages  will  look  upon  and  be 
lifted  up. "  (Mary  Baker  Eddy.)  Christ,  at 
His  first  appearing,  said : 

And  I,  if  I  be  lifted  up  .  .  .  will  draw  all  men 
unto  me.  ^ 

This  "memorial  of  Christian  Science, 
that  the  ages  will  look  upon  and  be  lifted 
up"  as  thought  is  spiritualized,  was  built 
by  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  Augusta  E.  Stetson, 
and  her  students.  It  declares  that  man  is 
spiritual.  At  Christ's  second  appearing,  as 
compound  idea,  reflecting  Life  and  Love,  the 
Fatherhood  and  Motherhood  of  God,  the 
nations  will  be  "lifted  up."  They  will 
"look  upon"  this  "memorial"  and  "be 
lifted"  above  matter,  above  material  type 

'John  12:  32. 

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America  tKriumptant 

and  symbol,  to  God,  man,  and  the  spiritual 
universe. 

Over  the  great  organ  in  this  church,  First 
Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  New  York  City, 
is  the  "triumphal  arch  of  Truth  and  Love,'" 
whose  sixteen  words, 

God  is  Love  and  He  that  Dwelleth  in  Love 
dwelleth  in  god  and  god  in  him.  ^ 

with  the  word  "Love"  at  the  keystone 
of  the  arch — typify    the  city  foursquare. 

This  city  of  our  God  has  no  need  of  sun  or  satel- 
lite, for  Love  is  the  light  of  it,  and  divine  Mind  is 
its  own  interpreter.  ^ 

Thus  "Love  .  .  .  designates,  and  leads 
the  way,  ""^  to  the  ark  of  the  new  "covenant," 
the  "church  of  the  first-bom,  written  in 
heaven,"^  whose  "bow  of  promise"  indi- 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  40.  s  Hebrews  12:  23. 

*I  John  4:  16. 

3  Science  and  Health,  p.  577. 

^Ibid.,  p.  454. 

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cates  that  idea  is  "as  immortal  as  its 
Principle.'" 

Just  here  it  is  interesting  to  note,  that  the 
editorial  on  "Our  Fathers'  Flag,"  which 
inspired  this  article,  touches  upon  certain 
astronomical  facts  which  are  of  deep  and 
significant  interest.  When  the  signers  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence  sat  in 
Independence  Hall,  they  looked  out  upon 
an  astronomical  observatory,  a  small  plat- 
form of  wood.  They  were  constantly 
protesting  against  old  world  astronomi- 
cal literature,  as  all  new  discoveries  were 
named  in  honor  of  kings  and  autocratic 
dignitaries. 

David  Rittenhouse,  of  Dutch  origin  (the 
first  American  astronomer)  was  a  patriot, — 
a  man  versed  in  science,  and  proclaimed  by 
Jefferson  as  the  first  in  genius.  Rittenhouse 
made  all  his  astronomical  discoveries  from 
the  little  wooden  platform.     The  Declara- 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  581. 
64 


America  ^riumpfjant 

tion  of  Independence  was  read  from  this 
wooden  observatory  in  Independence  Square, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  also  all 
the  thirteen  colony  flags  on  June  15, 
1777,  with  the  new  Stars  and  Stripes  above 
all  of  them,  were  raised  from  the  same 
platform. 

In  the  dedicatory  address,  which  was 
delivered  by  Mrs,  Augusta  E.  Stetson  at 
the  dedication  of  First  Church  of  Christ, 
Scientist,  New  York  City,  on  November 
29,  1903,  are  found  these  pregnant  words  in 
connection  with  the  footsteps  which  un- 
folded this  church: 


As  we  look  back  to  the  little  hall,  where  I 
preached  my  first  sermon  in  New  York  City  to  an 
audience  of  about  twenty,  and  recall  the  pine  table 
upon  which  was  an  improvised  desk  made  of  a  dry- 
goods  box,  and  covered  with  red  cambric,  we  grate- 
fully acknowledge  the  guidance  of  divine  Love, 
which  supplied  us  with  strength  and  courage  in 
hours  of  trial,  necessity,  persecution,  fear,  and  dis- 
couragement; which  led  us  outward,  onward,  up- 
s  65 


America  ^riumpjjant 

ward — ever  shielding  us,  and  furnishing  us  "  a  table 
in  the  wilderness";  causing  waste  places  to  bud 
and  blossom  as  the  rose,  until  we  have  been 
brought  into  this  "house  exceeding  magnifical," 
into  this  sanctuary  which  God's  hands  have 
established. 


These  words  appear  on  page  144  of 
Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence^ 
by  Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.  S.  D. 

The  true  Declaration  of  Indep^idence, 
or  spiritual  emancipation,  was  "signed  and 
sealed,"  its  clarion  call  was  sounded, — its  ef- 
fulgent light  was  revealed  in  New  York  City, 
from  this  little  dry -goods  box — the  spiritual 
astronomical  observatory,  and  the  spiritual 
understanding,  or  standard  of  demonstrable 
Christian  Science,  then  and  there  raised,  has 
never  been  lowered.  The  editorial  heretofore 
mentioned  states,  that  notwithstanding  the 
European  insistence  upon  the  heraldically 
incorrect  conception  of  our  flag, 

*  Published  by  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York. 
66 


America  tIDriumpfiant 

.  .  .  nevertheless  the  banner  of  the  stars  and 
stripes  is  a  correct  conception,  according  to  history, 
and  a  true  prophecy  of  that  which  is  to  come.  It 
was  made  in  conformity  with  exact  science,  real 
events,  and  deliberate  conviction  and  choice.  It  is 
life,  not  theory.  Its  stripes  record  the  past,  its  stars 
point  to  the  future. 

The  spiritual  conception  and  divine  unf  old- 
ment  of  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist, 
New  York  City,  represents  the  operation 
of  the  law  of  Love,  and  the  demonstration 
of  ' '  exact  science, " — true  Christian  Science, 
as  discovered  and  founded  by  Mary  Baker 
Eddy,  and  taught  and  demonstrated  by 
Augusta  E.  Stetson,  C.  S.  D. 

On  January  i6,  1909,  Mrs.  Eddy  wrote 
the  following  letter : 

When  my  dear  brethren  in  New  York  desire  to 
build  higher, — to  enlarge  their  phylacteries,  and 
demonstrate  Christian  Science  to  a  higher  extent, — 
they  must  begin  on  a  wholly  spiritual  foundation, 
than  which  there  is  no  other.  .  .  . 

Spirit  is  infinite,  therefore  Spirit  is  all.    ' '  There  is 

67 


!3merica  tlTriumpJiant 

no  matter"  is  not  only  the  axiom  of  true  Christian 
Science,  but  it  is  the  only  basis  upon  which  this 
Science  can  be  demonstrated.  ^ 


The  instant  obedience  and  compliance 
with  this  request,  to  begin  to  build  "on  a 
wholly  spiritual  foundation,"  to  strive  more 
earnestly  to  attain  a  higher  understanding, 
which  will  reveal  the  Church  Triumphant, 
where  "Spirit  is  infinite,  therefore  Spirit  is 
all,'' — re-sealed  and  made  eternally  invul- 
nerable the  "covenant"  made  with  Abra- 
ham.' It  has  become  an  "oath  imto  Isaac," 
and  to-day  the  "covenant"  is  confirmed 
"unto  Jacob*  for  a  law,  and  to  Israel*  for  an 
e  verl  as  ting  covenant . "  ^ 

It  is  significant  that  our  Seal  is  without 
supporters.  According  to  its  designer, ' '  God 
is  our  support." 

'  Miscellany,  p.  357. 

» See  definitions  of  Abraham,  Children  of  Israel  and  Jacob, 
p.  21. 

»I  Chronicles  16:  17. 

68 


The  Science  of  being  gives  back  the  lost  likeness 
and  power  of  God  as  the  seal  of  man's  adoption.^ 

This  Truth  is  the  rock  which  the  builders  re- 
jected; but  "the  same  has  become  the  head  of  the 
comer."  This  is  the  chief  comer-stone,  the  basis 
and  support  of  creation,  the  interpreter  of  one  God, 
and  infinity  and  unity  of  good.  ^ 

The  stamp  and  Seal  of  our  coinage  is  "In 
God  We  Trust."  Mrs.  Eddy's  last  words 
spoken  at  Pleasant  View  to  her  Church 
members  assembled  there,  were: 

I  would  present  a  gift  to  you  to-day,  only  that 
this  gift  is  already  yours.  God  hath  given  it  to  all 
mankind.  It  is  His  coin,  His  currency;  it  has  His 
image  and  superscription.  This  gift  is  a  passage  of 
Scripture;  it  is  my  sacred  motto,  and  it  reads  thus: 
"Trust  in  the  Lord,  and  do  good;  so  shalt  thou 
dwell  in  the  land,  and  verily  thou  shalt  be  fed." 
.  .  .     Trust  in  Truth,  and  have  no  other  trusts.  ^ 

She  concludes  by  quoting  the  prophecy  of 
Isaiah : 

'  Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  184. 

"  No  and  Yes,  p.  38.  »  Miscellany,  p.  170. 

69 


And  the  ransomed  of  the  Lord  shall  return,  and 
come  to  Zion  with  songs  and  everlasting  joy  upon 
their  heads:  they  shall  obtain  joy  and  gladness,  and 
sorrow  and  sighing  shall  flee  away.  ^ 


And  from  No  and  Yes,''  let  us  continue 
to  quote  Mrs.  Eddy: 

The  question  now  at  issue  is;  Shall  we  have  a 
practical,  spiritual  Christianity,  with  its  healing 
power,  or  shall  we  have  material  medicine  and  super- 
ficial religion?  The  advancing  hope  of  the  race, 
craving  health  and  holiness,  halts  for  a  reply;  and 
the  reappearing  Christ,  whose  life-giving  under- 
standing Christian  Science  imparts,  must  answer 
the  constant  inquiry:  "Art  thou  he  that  should 
come  ? "  Woman  should  not  be  ordered  to  the  rear, 
or  laid  on  the  rack,  for  joining  the  overture  of  angels. 
Theologians  descant  pleasantly  upon  free  moral 
agency;  but  they  should  begin  by  admitting  in- 
dividual rights. 

The  author's  ancestors  were  among  the  first 
settlers  of  New  Hampshire.  They  reared  there  the 
Puritan  standard  of  undefiled  religion.  As  dutiful 
descendants  of  Puritans,  let  us  lift  their  standard 
higher,  rejoicing,  as  Paul  did,  that  we  are  free  born. 

'  Isaiah  35 :  lo.  '  Page  46, 

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America  tlDriumpfjant 

Mary  Baker  Eddy's  platform — or  stand- 
ard— 

Spirit  is  infinite;  therefore  Spirit  is  all.  "There 
is  no  matter,"^ 

has  been  accepted  and  will  be  demonstrated, 
by  all  who  follow  and  obey  the  teachings  of 
Christ  Jesus  and  Mary  Baker  Eddy.  As 
she  comes  forth,  representing  the  compound, 
ideal  man  of  God's  creating,  those  who  have 
risen  with  her,  through  spiritualization  of 
thought  and  demonstration  of  Truth  and 
Love,  will  stand  on  the  Horeb  height  of 
divine,  omnipotent  Love,  singing  the  song 
of  the  redeemed,  and  the  ' '  paeans  of  praise  "^ 
which  Mary  Baker  Eddy  has  foretold. 

Washington,  at  Valley  Forge,  had  a  vivid 
illumination  which  remained  long  with  him, 
of    woman's    prophetic    vision    and    great 

'  Miscellany,  p.  357. 

^Reminiscences,  Sermons,  and  Correspondence,  facing  page 
34- 

71 


mission.  As  Mary  Baker  Eddy's  inspired 
thought  was  leavening  universal  conscious- 
ness, it  found  expression,  at  that  stage  of 
spiritual  unfoldment,  in  the  campaign  song 
of  1864,  "We're  Coming,  Father  Abraham, 
Three  Hundred  Thousand  Strong."  The 
Revelator  saw  the  "woman  clothed  with  the 
sun";  heard  a 

.  .  .  new  song  .  .  .  the  voice  of  many  angeis  round 
about  the  throne  .  .  .  and  the  number  of  them  was 
ten  thousand  times  ten  thousand,  and  thousands 
of  thousands;  saying  with  a  loud  voice,  "Worthy 
is  the  Lamb  that  was  slain  to  receive  power,  and 
riches,  and  wisdom,  and  strength,  and  honor,  and 
glory,  and  blessing."' 

Mary  Baker  Eddy  sings  the  final  and 
crowning  song  of  victory  and  rejoicing,  in 
Science  and  Health: 

For  victory  over  a  single  sin,  we  give  thanks,  and 
magnify  the  Lord  of  Hosts.    What  shall  we  say  of 

•Revelation  5: 12. 

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iamerica  ^riumpfjant 

the  mighty  conquest  over  all  sin?  A  louder 
song,  sweeter  than  has  ever  before  reached  high 
heaven,  now  rises  clearer  and  nearer  to  the 
great  heart  of  Christ;  for  the  accuser  is  not  there, 
and  Love  sends  forth  her  primal  and  everlasting 
strain. ^ 


At  this  one  hundred  and  forty-fourth 
anniversary  of  American  independence,  all 
signers  of  the  spiritual  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence— "an  hundred  forty  and  four 
thousand,  having  his  [their]  Father's  name 
written  in  their  foreheads,'"" — will  stand 
on  Mount  Zion  with  Christ  at  his  second 
appearing,  and  will  be  heard  singing  the 
"new  song  before  the  throne."  Its  har- 
monies are  voiced  by  the  people  of  God, 
in  song  and  sermon,  throughout  the  uni- 
verse. 

The  "fixed  star"  in  the  spiritual  astro- 
nomical heavens  is  bringing  the  "wise  men" 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  568. 
» Revelation  14:  i. 

73 


^mtvita  tIDrmmpijant 

to    the    "city    which    hath    foundations, 
Mount  Zion, 


having  the  glory  of  God:  and  her  light  was  like 
unto  a  stone  most  precious,  even  like  a  jasper 
stone,  clear  as  crystal;  And  had  a  wall  great  and 
high,  and  had  twelve  gates,  and  at  the  gates  twelve 
angels,  and  names  written  thereon,  which  are 
the  names  of  the  twelve  tribes  of  the  children  of 
Israel.  ^ 


The  completeness  of  this  symbolic  vision 
is  clearly  seen. 

And  the  Spirit  and  the  bride  say,  Come.  And 
let  him  that  heareth  say,  Come.  And  let  him  that 
is  athirst  come.  ^ 

I  am  the  root  and  offspring  of  David,  and  the 
bright  and  morning  star.  ^ 

O  blessings  infinite ! 

O  glad  New  Year! 
Sweet  sign  and  substance 

Of  God's  presence  here. 

'  Revelation  21 :  12. 

^Ibid.,  22:  17.  ilhid.,  22: 16. 

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i^merica  tIDrmmpfjant 

Give  us  not  only  angels'  songs, 

But  Science  vast,  to  which  belongs 

The  tongue  of  angels 
And  the  song  of  songs.  ^ 

Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

The  last  appearing  of  Truth  will  be  a  wholly 
spiritual  idea  of  God  and  man,  without  the  fetters 
of  the  flesh,  or  corporeality.  This  infinite  idea  of 
infinity  will  be,  is,  as  eternal  as  its  divine  Principle. 
The  day  star  of  this  appearing  is  the  light  of  Chris- 
tian Science — the  Science  which  rends  the  veil  of 
the  flesh  from  top  to  bottom.  The  light  of  this 
revelation  leaves  nothing  that  is  material;  neither 
darkness,  doubt,  disease  nor  death.  The  material 
corporeality  disappears;  and  individual  spirituality, 
perfect  and  eternal,  appears, — never  to  disappear.^ 

To-day  the  watchful  shepherd  shouts  his  ^'t^I-^ j^je 
over  the  new  cradle  of  an  old  truth.  This  truth  has 
traversed  night,  through  gloom  to  glory,  from  cradle 
to  crown.  To  the  awakened  consciousness,  the 
Bethlehem  babe  has  left  his  swaddling-clothes 
(material  environments)  for  the  form  and  comeli- 
ness of  the  divine  ideal,  which  has  passed  from  a 
corporeal  to  the  spiritual  sense  of  Christ,  and  is 
winning   the    heart    of    humanity    with    ineffable 

'  Miscellany,  p.  354. 

»  Miscellaneous  Writitigs,  p.  165. 

75 


iSmerica  tirtiumjjfjant 

tenderness.  The  Christ  is  speaking  for  himself  and 
for  his  mother,  Christ's  heavenly  origin  and  aim. 
To-day  the  Christ  is,  more  than  ever  before,  "the 
way,  the  truth  and  the  life, " — "which  lighteth  every 
man  that  cometh  into  the  world,"  healing  all  sorrow, 
sickness  and  sin.  ...  At  this  immortal  hour,  all 
human  hate,  pride,  greed,  lust,  should  bow,  and 
declare  Christ's  power,  and  the  reign  of  Truth  and 
Life  divine  should  make  man's  being  pure  and 
blest.' 


Mrs.  Eddy  was  asked,  who  would  be  her 
successor?    Her  reply  was, 

What  remains  to  lead  on  the  centuries  and  reveal 
my  successor,  is  man  in  the  image  and  likeness  of 
the  Father-Mother  God.' 

This  "man"  has  already  been  revealed  in 
Christian  Science.  The  Christian  Scientists, 
who  have  attained  the  spiritual  understand- 
ing and  vision,  which  the  teachings  of  Christ 
Jesus  and  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  if  obeyed  and 
demonstrated,  impart,  know  that  the  Christ, 

'  Miscellany,  p.  257.  '  Ibid.,  p.  347. 

76 


at  his  second  appearing,  in  the  image  and 
likeness  of  God,  will  succeed  the  human 
Mary,  just  as  the  Christ,  at  his  first  appear- 
ing, succeeded  the  human  Jesus. 

Christ  at  his  first  appearing  was  not  long 
visible  to  his  disciples,  whose  spiritual  vision 
was  not  equal  to  retaining  their  great 
Teacher.    Christ,  the  real  "man, "  declared, 

In  my  Father's  house  are  many  mansions:  if  it 
were  not  so,  I  would  have  told  you.  I  go  to  prepare 
a  place  for  you.  And  if  I  go  and  prepare  a  place  for 
you,  I  will  come  again,  and  receive  you  unto  my- 
self; that  where  I  am,  there  ye  may  be  also.^ 

A  Christian  Scientist,  who  is  building  on  a 
"wholly  spiritual  foundation"  (Mary  Baker 
Eddy),  will  gain  the  spiritual  vision,  which 
will  reveal  the  risen  Christ,  at  his  second 
triumph  over  the  false  material  sense  of 
"man,"  the  first  demonstration  having 
been  made  over  the  Adam  belief -man.    The 

'John  14:2,  3. 

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^mtxita  tlDriumpfjant 

second  appearing  of  Christ  will  destroy  the 
belief  of  life  and  intelligence  in  so-called 
material  woman,  and  the  real  "man,"  the 
compoimd  idea,  reflecting  the  Fatherhood 
and  Motherhood  of  God,  will  appear, — the 
perfect  image  of  a  perfect  Principle,  Mind, 
Spirit,  God. 

Thus  Christ's  great  and  final  victory  will 
be  made  over  the  ' '  dragon ' ' — the  belief  of  a 
material  man  and  a  material  woman,  who 
claim  to  be  creators,  the  result  of  which 
false  claim  is  a  mortal  man  and  a  material 
universe,  expressed  in  sin,  sickness,  and 
death.  This  dream-man  and  dream-uni- 
verse, evil  calls  God's  creation. 

The  real  "man" — the  Christ,  reflects  the 
creative  Principle  of  Being,  Life,  and  Love. 

The  Truth-man  is  the  "man"  of  God's 
creating.  This  "man"  is  revealed  to  the 
spiritual  sense  of  the  Christian  Scientists, 
and  "unto  them  that  look  for  him  [through 
spiritual  sense]  shall  he  appear  the  second 

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America  tlDriumpliant 

time  without  sin,'"  without  a  material, 
fleshly  embodiment,  but  with  a  spiritual 
"image  "  in  the  likeness  of  God,  perfect  and 
immortal,  God's  glorified  substance  man. 

This  "man, "  who  is  to  succeed  Mrs.  Eddy, 
Christian  Science  reveals  to  the  Christian 
Scientists,  who  are  building  on  a  "wholly 
spiritual  foundation"  in  response  to  Mrs. 
Eddy's  letter  to  her  "dear  brethren  in  New 
York."^ 

Spiritual  sense  reveals  this  "man"  and 
interprets  Mrs.  Eddy's  teaching  of  the 
"  Christ-spirit  which  governed  the  corporeal 
Jesus, "^  the  masculine  representative  of  the 
Fatherhood  of  God. 

It  was  the  Christ-spirit  which  governed 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  the  feminine  representa- 
tive of  God's  Motherhood. 

When  the  human  material  sense  called 
Jesus,  and  the  human  material  sense  called 

'  Hebrews  9:  28.  '  Miscellany,  p.  357. 

3  Science  and  Health,  p.  141. 

79 


America  tE^riumpf)ant 

Mary  Baker  Eddy,  is  dissolved  by  God's 
"man,"  Christ,  the  ideal  man  of  God's 
creating,  then  Mrs.  Eddy's  words,  which 
are  as  follows,  will  be  understood  by  the 
spiritual  builders  in  Christian  Science,  who 
are  rising  with  Christ,  and  who  will  recog- 
nize and  reign  with  him.  Of  this  man,  Mrs. 
Eddy  says: 

For  this  Principle  there  is  no  dynasty,  no  ecclesi- 
astical monopoly.  Its  only  crowned  head  is  immor- 
tal sovereignty.  Its  only  priest  is  the  spiritualized 
man.  ^ 

The  material  senses  can  not  grasp  this 
spiritual  fact  of  Scientific  Being.  To  spirit- 
ual sense,  the  coming  of  Christ  is  imminent. 

Paul,  through  having  suffered  out  of  the 
material  senses,  having  carried  the  cross  and 
drunk  the  cup  of  the  Master  Metaphysician, 
understood  that  he  would  behold  the ' '  man, ' ' 
Christ,  at  his  second  and  final  appearing, 

'  Science  and  Health,  p.  141. 
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America  tlTriumpJjant 

and  he  left  this  legacy  of  hope,  to  all  who 
siiffer  with  Christ,  that  they  may  reign  with 
him. 

When  Christ,  who  is  our  life,  shall  appear  [be 
manifest]  then  shall  ye  also  appear  [be  manifest] 
with  him  in  glory.  ^ 

Spiritual  vision  illumined  Mrs.  Eddy 
when  she,  the  scribe  of  Spirit,  chronicled 
her  vision  in  the  following  words . 

The  chaos  of  mortal  mind  is  made  the  stepping- 
stone  to  the  cosmos  of  immortal  Mind.  ^ 

The  ' '  chaos  of  mortal  mind ' '  indeed  seems 
to  have  reached  its  limit  of  ' '  confusion  worse 
confounded, "  and  portends  the  self-destruc- 
tion of  evil — viz.,  material  sense,  material 
organization,  material  government,  and 
finally  material  generation.  Verily,  the 
belief  and  claim  of  a  power  opposed  to  Life, 
Truth,  and  Love,  is  fast  reaching  its  acme  of 
self-annihilation. 

•  Colossians  3:4.  ^  Unity  of  Good,  p.  56. 

6  81 


America  tKriumpfjant 

The  "man, "  Christ,  who  was  the  "succes- 
sor" of  the  human  Jesus,  will  be  the  "suc- 
cessor" of  the  human  Mary.  Thus  will  God 
establish  or  reveal  His  dominion,  through 
His  son,  or  the  Christ-man,  the  divine  man 
of  His  creating,  the  compound  idea  who 
reflects  the  Fatherhood  and  Motherhood, 
the  Life  and  Love,  the  Principle  of  all  real, 
eternal  being,  the  one  God.  Christ  is  the 
head  of  the  body. 

So-called  material  history,  material  law, 
and  material  government,  is  fast  drawing  to 
a  close.  Man  is  God's  image  and  likeness. 
Christ,  the  executor  of  God's  law,  is  fulfill- 
ing the  Scripture. 

Set  ye  up  a  standard  in  the  land,  blow  the  trum- 
pet among  the  nations,  prepare  the  nations  against 
her,  .  .  .  And  the  land  shall  tremble  and  sorrow: 
for  every  purpose  of  the  Lord  shall  be  performed 
against  Babylon.^ 

.  .  .  the  government  shall  be  upon  his  shoulder : 
and  his  name  shall  be  called  Wonderful,  Counsellor, 

'Jeremiah  51:27,  29. 

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America  tE^riumptant 

The  mighty   God,   The   everlasting   Father,    The 
Prince  of  Peace. 

Of  the  increase  of  his  government  and  peace 
there  shall  be  no  end,  upon  the  throne  of  David, 
and  upon  his  kingdom,  to  order  it,  and  to  establish 
it  with  judgment,  and  with  justice  from  henceforth 
even  for  ever.  The  zeal  of  the  Lord  of  hosts  will 
perform  this.  ^ 

Let  me  conclude  with  the  words  of  the 
Pilgrim  Fathers,  as  they  put  in  writing  their 
pledge  to  one  another,  before  they  left  the 
Mayflower  and  stepped  upon  the  shores  of 
the  land  where  they  were  to  establish  the 
worship  of  one  God,  obedience  to  whose  law 
of  Truth  and  Love  would  result  in  "life, 
liberty,  and  pursuit  of  happiness."  These 
are  their  immortal  words:  "  In  the  name  of 
God,  Amen." 

Brave  Britain,  blest  America! 

Unite  your  battle-plan; 
Victorious,  all  who  live  it, — 

The  love  for  God  and  man.  * 

— Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

'  Isaiah  9: 6,  7.  '  Miscellany,  p.  338. 

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America,  America,  the  God  of  love 
Whose  name  is  ev'ry  name  above, 

Is  thy  defence. 
'Tis  thou  must  lead  the  longing  worid 
From  phantom  fears  to  Love's  unfurl'd 

Omnipotence.  ^ 
^Our  America. 


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